Shutterstock The Kingsley Plantation Zephaniah Kingsley bought 13-year-old Anna Madgigine Jai at a slave auction in Havana, ...

Two University of Houston archaeologists have made scientific history with the discovery of a Mayan king's tomb in Belize. A UH team led by husband and wife scientists Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z.

The Mayan city of Caracol has been researched for decades, but archaeologists only recently found a tomb of one of the city's ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

A rare mosaic death mask made of jadeite and vessels in the shapes of an owl, a monkey and coati-mundi were found with the ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...