The U.S. is full of archaeological sites, "but in most cases you could be standing right on top of one and never know it," Elic Weitzel told Newsweek.

The discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.

Even American universities took scant notice ... where the stories of ancient civilizations were comfortably distant and romantic. The few people who championed Cahokia and its neighboring mound ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...

Horses first evolved in North America. Some of their early ancestors lived 30–40 million years ... Explore how the domestication of horses influenced the fate of entire civilizations and dramatically ...