But the internal African slave trade in empires like Mali, Songhai, Ashanti, Dahomey or Egypt was the most pervasive and according to historians, more black people were enslaved within Africa by ...

Highlights include pieces from the Inca and Aztec empires and Chinchorro mummies, a funerary technique that's 2,000 years older than the Egyptian method. The temporary exhibits, which showcase ...

In southern Peru’s Atico River Valley, archaeologists have unearthed a large tomb filled with the battle-scarred skeletons of 24 women, men and children. Interred in various stone enclosures, the two ...

Today, Central America is divided into seven unique countries. But before it was what it is now, the land was ruled by the Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs, some of the most notable empires in human history.

Skeletal analysis of the sacrificed children reveals that they were between the ages of five and 14 and came from throughout the Chimú Empire ... and the Inca, who vanquished the Chimú around ...

The spread of measles and smallpox in the New World (the Americas) unquestionably decimated the Aztec and Inca empires. The high prevalence of yellow fever and malaria made it impossible for European ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

In a region packed with historically important cities, few can claim to have played such a long and pivotal role as Puebla.

Villagers in Mexico just uncovered 2,500-year-old ruins of the Zapotec "Cloud People" on a 6,000-foot mountaintop. The ruins ...