Deep beneath the soil of North America lies a treasure trove of mysterious ancient artifacts that ... our understanding of early American civilizations and suggest possibilities that stretch ...

I'm standing at the center of what was once the greatest civilization between the deserts of Mexico and the North American ... where the stories of ancient civilizations were comfortably distant ...

But North America has its peat bogs, too, and some of them contain the remarkably well-preserved remains of ancient people ... more complex societies. Moreover, some of the Windover folk lived ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome ... museum and interdisciplinary research center ...