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CUSCO, Peru-Cusco, the golden city of the Incas, sprawls across the hillsides of the high Andes Mountains.

The Collective Imagination is designed to explore some of the most compelling issues facing the world today and the ways that science and technology can help us address them.

Artifacts from the shipwreck of what's believed to have been Blackbeard's flagship will be shown off in an eastern North Carolina lab.

I grew up wondering through the woods of the Northeast Kingdom on an endless search for arrowheads, old bottles and rusted metal.

Archaeologists trying their luck at the future site of a Philadelphia casino have hit it big.

A proposed jail facility west of Palm Springs would pose few significant risks to the local area, according to an environmental assessment released today by Riverside County officials.

The resting place of the USS Westfield is being disturbed to retrieve what's left of the Civil War-era vessel from a Texas ship channel.

The boat, authorities said, went over a small dam and overturned. The men, both in life vests, plunged into the 38-degree water.

An ancient Persian stone relief in Persepolis, Iran. Corbis ENLARGE + In 525 BC, the Persian Emperor Cambyses dispatched 50,000 of his soldiers to lay waste to an oasis temple in the Sahara desert because its oracle had spoken ill of his plans for world domination.

An archaeologist applies magnetic survey to an Iowa cornfield revealing a prehistoric village 8 feet below the ground in Plymouth County.

A 7-day Belize trip lets women discover Mayan ruins, explore an eerie ceremonial cave, snorkel with sting rays, meet village locals, and more.

One hundred and fifty-three years ago, in a quarry in the Neander Valley in Germany, quarry-workers stumbled on a strange skeleton.

The Mesolithic site may date from as early as 9000 BC, by which time hunter-gatherers had reoccupied the region after the last ice age.

"Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor" featuring the largest number of terra cotta figures ever to travel to the United States for a single exhibition, will open on Nov.

The Collective Imagination is designed to explore some of the most compelling issues facing the world today and the ways that science and technology can help us address them.

Northern Mexico's Yaqui Indians buried their lost warriors after a two-year effort to rescue the remains from New York's American Museum of Natural History, where the victims of one of North America's last Indian massacres lay in storage for more than a century.

The secret is out: Man and gomphotheres once coexisted in Sonora. Tools and spear tips found with fossil bones at a remote Sonoran site suggest that Clovis-era hunters butchered two juvenile specimens of the elephantlike megafauna about 13,000 years ago.

"Tell me something good" at the Santa Monica Museum of Art is a collaboration between Kim Schenstadt and Rita Mcbride that takes its inspiration from an event at the Museum of contemporary art in Chicago in 1969 "Phoning it in." The exhibitions both address conceptual art, where the artists value process over product, experience over possession.

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency is ready to help American Samoa assess and fund an island-wide siren alert system, which has to be initiated by the local government, says a top FEMA official.

Abstract Partly due to the failure of anthropology to productively engage the fields of psychology and neuroscience, investigations in cultural neuroscience have occurred largely without the active involvement of anthropologists or anthropological theory.