Cultures

Deep in the Amazon rainforest there lives a tribe most people have never seen. They’re called the Massaco, and until very recently, not a single outsider had laid eyes on them.

Many well-intentioned Americans still make these mistakes when they are travelling overseas.

American travellers' notions of privacy and personal space get put to the test when they go overseas.

Even the most relaxed and secure countries have surprisingly strict laws and local regulations that you must be aware of.

Archaeologists were stunned to discover fragments of rock displaying cuneiform writing in a cave in eastern Europe.

Chief Red Cloud defeated the U.S. Army through strategy and unity, forcing one of the only Native victories in American history.

Remote imaging has revealed the presence of a previously unknown void in Menkaure, the smallest of the Great Pyramids of Giza.

Archaeological research has resumed in one of Syria's most important Bronze Age sites.

For years, archaeologists have wondered why sections of fingers are missing from prehistoric painted hand stencils in European caves. A new theory offers one disturbing explanation.

A walk in a field with a metal detector uncovered an amazing relic left over from Tudor England: a gold pendant linked to the wedding of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. The discovery is an amazing addition to our knowledge of England's turbulent royal past.

A new discovery in Turkey opens the possibility that human societies developed complex ritual practices far earlier than we ever previously thought.

Recent DNA research pinpointed the identity of the people in China who suspended their dead in coffins from canyon cliffs , showing a direct genetic link to the historic Bo people.