In the mid 20th Century, Ecuadorian historian Jacinto Jijon Y Caamano set out to investigate the remains of a suspected ...

This 19th century piece from Bolivia, Virgin with Christ Child, is among the artifacts on display in the "Microhistories of ...

While in China, President Donald Trump said the pile of 440 kilograms of 60 percent enriched uranium that was at the heart of ...

The United Nations General Assembly, that playground for dictators, terrorists and supporters of terrorists, on March 25 passed a resolution condemning the Transatlantic slave trade by a 123-3 ...

Dispatches from the Terminal Ward of the Western Echo Chamber From the Edge of the Confirmation Bias Abyss Something is ...

At the mouth of the Supe River on Peru’s central coast, where the desert meets the Pacific, archaeologists have uncovered a ...

This is the real deal, a genuine ancient city that was thriving when medieval Europe was still in the Dark Ages. The ...

Peru's first great empire left no written records. Now, archaeologists are piecing together who the Wari were with the help ...

From coast to coast, staffers of The Columbian are visiting other communities to share their experiences in modern journalism, to learn about what other independent newsrooms are doing to keep local ...

In 1928, naturalist Henry Beston famously wrote that our fellow animals are “gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not ...

Ancient DNA reveals how family bonds helped Andean communities survive climate crisis, disease, and the pressures of early ...