Whether across the expanse of thousands of years or alongside a river, the hand wave is a gesture that holds social meaning. But has it always been used as a positive greeting?

As the world’s Indigenous languages fade away at an alarming rate, some people are turning to technology to preserve their ancestors’ native tongues—and the cultural knowledge held in them.

From Palmyra in Syria to Timbuktu in Mali, a wave of destruction has erased monuments to humanity’s past. Does their loss really matter?

The Bering land bridge holds vital clues to the story of the Americas’ first inhabitants. A new project may rewrite the history books.

Indigenous South Americans who lived during the rubber era weave fact and myth to pass down their collective memories as both witnesses and survivors.

On Fiji’s islands, shifting sea levels have left a tangled legacy of conflict and survival. We should take note.

Mother Nature doesn’t play fair when it comes to the preservation of archaeological remains.

A bomb clearance team in Laos eagerly buys bush meat from local hunters. Then they realize they’re eating threatened and endangered species.

New research by anthropologists and forensic scientists is bringing hope to the relatives of war victims while challenging Spain’s “pact of forgetting.”

Whether historical plaques, flags, and building names stay or go is of less consequence than the debate they provoke.