New study challenges a site that’s key to how humans got to the Americas

For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called Monte Verde. Scientists found echoes of hu ...

2,000-year-old artifact may be evidence that Romans found New World — a thousand years before Columbus

The discovery of a 2,000-year-old Roman artifact in Mexico could upend our understanding of the New World, raising the possibility that Italians arrived in the Americas long before Christopher ...

Archaeologists Found a Tooth and Bones That Challenge Assumptions About Christianity

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