Mystery of Machu Picchu
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Take a look at the creature scientists are hailing as the link that could unlock the mystery of human evolution.
Meet our distant relative, the Neanderthal, and learn how scientists are using ages old DNA to understand their primitive lifestyles.
The Americas' first artist may have been an Ice Age hunter in what is now Florida, according to an anthropologist who has examined a 13,000-year-old bone etching.
The Taliban blew up Afghanistan's two known giant Buddhas in 2001, but is there a third? Archaeologist Zemaryalai Tarzi says yes, and he's determined to find it.