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Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound located in Louisiana, continues to puzzle archaeologists and historians.

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The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.

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For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

La Brújula Verde reports that an extensive genetic study of human remains found at the site of Shimao in Shaanxi Province is ...