Ancient DNA from a Stone Age burial site in Sweden shows that families 5,500 years ago were more complex than expected. Many individuals buried together were not immediate family, but second- or third ...

A massive, centuries-long drought may have driven the extinction of the “hobbits” of Flores. Climate records preserved in cave formations show rainfall plummeted just as the small human species ...

An Arctic camp dating back 4,500 years on a Greenlandic island was only accessible after a dangerous journey through icy waters.

A new study is changing what we know about the lives of Inuit 4,500 years ago. It suggests that they were much better at sea travel than originally thought. An archaeological team studied an ancient ...

As the son of archaeologists, National Geographic Explorer David Stuart spent his childhood wandering ancient Maya ruins—and helped shape what we know about the civilization today.

Kitsissut is a nightmare for modern sailors. It’s a remote cluster of islands in the High Arctic, choked by fog, battered by ...