Long before the Spanish arrived, a coastal people thrived—and vanished. The Manteno left behind ruins, relics, and a mystery that’s still unfolding.

A cave explorer in Mexico recently made an unexpected discovery deep underground. What she first thought was modern trash ...

Ancient Nubians who lived between the 7th and 9th centuries tattooed the cheeks and foreheads of their infants and toddlers.

After the Guadalupe event, Native people uninterested in Christ suddenly flocked by the millions to be baptized. Our Lady of Guadalupe bridged an ocean, uniting Europeans and Indigenous Americans. How ...

At its zenith, the Indus Valley Civilisation, spanning much of present-day Pakistan and northwest India, was characterised by advanced urban planning, including gridded streets, multi-storey brick ...

For some reason, we’ve long been obsessed with the idea of lost cities and advanced hidden civilizations. A classic example of this is the ongoing hunt for Agartha, a legendary city supposedly hidden ...

From Athens to the Abbasids to today’s Anglosphere, creativity and commerce drive greatness Ninth century Baghdad, seat of the Abbasid Caliphate, was designed as a perfect circle to honor the Greek ...

In the Middle Ages, prophecies of a coming global collapse proliferated across Europe. Conditions were ripe for a powerful strain of apocalypticism to take hold: Population growth, the rise of ...