A sweeping new genetic study has uncovered a long-overlooked thread in the fabric of South American history: a deeply rooted human lineage in central Argentina that dates back over 8,500 years and ...

Thirteen million years ago, a group of medium-sized monkeys known for guarding their territory among the treetops with fearsome "howls" started doing something new. These monkeys, among the oldest ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World. The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America, 1658. A ...

When I visited Oxapampa and Pozuzo in central Peru, I was fascinated by the region’s enduring ties to a surprising motherland—Germany. These beautiful twin towns were founded in the mid-1800s by a ...