GEOCHRONOLOGY

Modern scientific techniques help scientists measure the age of ancient rocks such as these pegmatite with quartz and feldspar ones in Wyo...

Myths and Monuments II

THORNBOROUGH henges In other places there can be a finer balance. The origins of a piece of oral history are typically much more obscure t...

Myths and Monuments I

Dresden Codex Where we have first-hand informants or can actually still witness long-standing cultural practices, we are in the strongest ...

The Nabataean kingdom

The Nabataean kingdom was one of the wealthiest of the Client States which were a prominent feature on the Roman frontiers, especially in ...

No evidence for Clovis catastrophe, archaeologists say

Distinctive spearpoints made by the so-called Clovis culture have been found at sites throughout the contiguous United States, as well as ...

Huge Pre-Stonehenge Complex Found via "Crop Circles"

Etched into crops, the outlines of Bronze Age burial mounds surround a roughly 190-foot (57-meter) circular Stone Age temple site about 15...

"Lost" Amazon Complex Found; Shapes Seen by Satellite

The crop circles of Santa Teresinha, Brazil, are seen in an undated photograph. John Roach for National Geographic News January 4, 2010 Hund...