Early Contact With the Americas

The Azores archipelago is about 1,000 miles off the coast of Europe, about a third of the way to North America across the Atlantic. The islands belong to Portugal, and the official ...

Ancient Mayan and Chinese calendar systems share so many similarities, it is unlikely they developed independently, according to ...

A mysterious inscription on a mysterious artifact has been theorized by some to be Cherokee, Semitic, or Welsh, ...

Medieval scholar Donald Yates, Ph.D., is shedding new light on controversial artifacts found near Tuscon, Ariz., in the ...

What appears to be an ancient Roman sword has been found off the East Coast of Canada, and ...

Are the symbols on the Dighton Rock Native American? Norse? Phoenician? Chinese? Portuguese? Japanese? All or none of ...

Investigators have found what is believed to be a Roman shipwreck of the coast of Canada, suggesting the ...

What may be an ancient Chinese artifact mysteriously appeared in a small garden next to a pond, on ...

Did a single wave of migration people the Americas, or have there been many expeditions from many cultures ...

The ancient Greek myth of Cadmus battling a snake could be an allegory for the discovery of the ...

A Harvard Medical School study is reshaping our understanding of how the indigenous people arrived in the Americas. ...

The findings could radically change world history. Some experts are excited, others scathingly criticize Ruskamp's work.

Did the Chinese beat Christopher Columbus to the New World by many, many centuries?

Hesiod's description of the ancient Greek dwelling place of gorgons seems to match the mysterious labyrinth ruins of ...

Do inscriptions on the coast of Uruguay tell of an expedition that could dramatically change history books?

Will the history books change? Evidence suggests the Chinese got to America before the Europeans.

Who peopled the New World, and when? Native American origins aren't so clear-cut, some experts say, citing genetic ...

Are you moving forward or backward in life? Some ancient cultures had figures that literally moved backward to ...

Some researchers say that puzzling artifacts, as well as the results of recent DNA studies performed on Native ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is claiming that Muslim sailors reached the Americas more than 300 years before ...

People may have been making their way from Easter Island to the Americas well before the Dutch commander ...

Dr. Donald Yates found what he sees as strong evidence that Cherokee Native Americans have Middle Eastern ancestry—ancestry ...

In Israel's Negev desert and in the American Southwest similar petroglyphs have been found, according to archaeologist Dr. ...

The idea that Native Americans are descended from ancient Jews, Egyptians, or Greeks has been a controversial one ...

Did ancient Europeans make it to America long before known Viking excursions? Here's a look at the controversial ...

Other nations, including the Vikings, Chinese, and ancient Egyptians, may have visited the Americas hundreds of years before ...