A millenniums-old settlement in Michigan has archaeologists rethinking the rise of agriculture on the continent.

Ancestral Menominee people in what’s now Michigan’s Upper Peninsula grew maize and other crops on large tracts of land despite harsh conditions.

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Scientists say a species of bacteria rewrites the history of when an infectious and potentially deadly disease first arrived ...

"Up to this point, we didn't believe there was any other lineage that would appear in South America," said archaeologist ...

These first Africans in Virginia were ... people. (See also: Jamestown colonists resorted to cannibalism.) England had made several unsuccessful attempts to start a colony in North America before ...

Native Americans May Not Have Come From Japan, Study on Ancient Teeth Reveals Why the Theory ‘Simply Does Not Match’ For a ...

This week's Letters to the Editor, featuring your views on both national and local politics, and their effect on our ...

The win hands the festival’s top prize to a director who had been banned from leaving Iran for more than 15 years.

The Justice Department today charged Elias Rodriguez, 31, with federal murder charges in connection to the fatal shooting Wednesday night of two Israeli Embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish ...

West Nile virus, which mainly spreads between birds but can also infect people if they're bitten by an infected mosquito, has been detected in UK mosquitoes for the first time, UK health officials ...

The gift was similar to the Canadian bronze, silver and nickel key given to King George V when Canada House first opened ... Canada's Indigenous people, including children who were forcibly ...