The modern curse of the mummy.

Mayan people of day preserve much of the richness of their heritage, while other cultures have forgotten their own legacies.

The largest Mayan dam in Central America was found at the Tikal site, where 80,000 people lived in the rainforest approximately 2000 years ago.

It was at the island of Salamis that the marine forces of the Greek city-states met their Persian oppressors in battle. It was thus that the West won its very right to exist.

Incisions made on the bones of prehistoric giant sloths show that human beings were living in Ohio much earlier than previously thought.

Modern human beings share traits with Neanderthal ancestors to a greater or lesser extent according to geographic origin. Interbreeding with Homo sapiens neanderthalensis was widespread, and so perhaps was the eating of Neanderthals by human beings.

Archaeologists have found an intact tomb from the 1st century AD that may show the earliest signs of Christian iconography.

Evidence of ancient caribou drives on the bottom of Lake Huron. Evidence also of a great flood in the Great Lakes basin.

Pocahontas, before she married John Rolfe, was kidnapped and held for ransom by the English. She was later baptized, but died young in England.

St. Cybi is recalled even today in Wales, where he lent his name to Holy Island in the county of Anglesey. Other Welsh place names reflect a Christian heritage.

Archaeologists pen a comprehensive tome of science, historical records and myths from 1846-1847 winter