An isolated Indian tribe in Brazil seemingly has vanished like a morning mist in the Amazon jungle.
CNN's David McKenzie joins a team trying to rescue girls from a cultural practice that effectively endorses child rape.
In an effort to ramp up pressure for Peru to crack down on illegal loggers in its region of the Amazon, an indigenous rights organization has released what it says are photos of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil that is threatened by the logging across the border.
Anyone who has taken an anthropology course has probably heard of Claude Levi-Strauss, who died recently at age 100.
Professor Michael Wesch should be flattered.
An insurrection against President Evo Morales in the eastern part of the country entered its second week Tuesday, with groups backed by local governors seizing control of government offices and airports and threatening to shut off a gas pipeline that feeds strategic fields in Argentina and Brazil.
Last month photographs of the discovery of one of the world's last "uncontacted" tribes on the Brazil/Peru border made front covers across the world, vividly illustrating a way of life that is mostly unknown and ignored in the industrialized world.
Syrian authorities have recovered Iraqi artifacts looted after the fall of Saddam Hussein. CNN's Arwa Damon reports.
Stolen by smugglers and now returned to the cradle of civilization.
York is a highlight for any visit to Britain -- by far the best stop between London and Edinburgh. It has a huge church and, locals love to add, "A giant bell."
The ongoing struggle between American shipwreck salvage company Odyssey Marine and the Spanish government has become a classic courtroom drama
The glistening treasures of King Tut, the popular name of the famous Egyptian boy-king Tutankhamun, are fascinating a new generation of Londoners more than 25 years after the first exhibition was greeted with fanfare on British shores.
Antiquities from Egypt, China mean big bucks in London. CNN's Alphonso Van Marsh reports.
Up to 80,000 items at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library are unaccounted for, probably because of haphazard record-keeping and inventory procedures, officials said Thursday.
A gambling tycoon preempts controversy by purchasing a bronze looted by Westerners in the 19th century
On April 10, a Gulfstream G-V took off from the British territory of Gibraltar en route to Tampa with a load of Colonial-era silver and gold coins salvaged from a centuries-old shipwreck.
A fabled fossil goes on view for the first time in decades -- and ignites a controversy
Bombs go off in Oaxaca as local elections approach, bringing fears of a return to last year's civil strife
If you listen closely, you might just be able to hear a confused video gamer struggling to find the single-player story mode in "Shadowrun," the latest video game published by Microsoft Game Studios.
At the foot of cliffs in central Afghanistan, about 5,000 fragments of what were once among the world's great artistic and religious treasures, the Buddhas of Bamiyan, sit in rudimentary shelters.
Six of the seven Ancient Wonders of the World have vanished into history, but now there may be a way to recreate these ancient heritage sites, as well as to people them and furnish them in a historically authentic way.
Six of the seven Ancient Wonders of the World have vanished into history, like the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which crumbled into the sea after an earthquake, and the Statue of Zeus, destroyed by fire thousands of years ago. Only the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt remain on the list.
While it didn't make the papers, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in 1986 spawned an army of zombies bent on destroying humanity.
Emboldened by the return of two ancient artifacts claimed to have been spirited from Greek soil a decade ago, Greece's Prime Minister has lashed out at the British Museum, saying its grounds for refusing to relinquish possession of Greece's most famous antiquities, the Parthenon Marbles, were "feeble."
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After his second day working on a dig in rural Thailand, Roger Prior was sore, dirty, hungry - and giddy.
(Business 2.0 Magazine) - Trendspotting is serious business. So much so that the Institute for the Future, a Palo Alto-based think tank, produces an annual 96-page 10-year forecast - an exhaustive compendium of societal and technological trends, widely regarded as the bellwether of long-range planning.
TRENDSPOTTING IS SERIOUS BUSINESS. SO MUCH so that the Institute for the Future, a Palo Alto-based think tank, produces an annual 96-page 10-year forecast--an exhaustive compendium of societal and ...
When flood waters recede, there's more than debris and heartache. There are still memories and documents and pieces of history that need to be preserved and restored.
A little piece of Jedi history comes at a high price: $200,600 to be exact.
Archaeologists say a site in South Carolina may rewrite the history of how the Americas were settled by pushing back the date of human settlement thousands of years.
U.S. government officials studying the tape of a Western journalist apparently threatened with death in Iraq believe the man "is being held captive" and are working to get his release, a senior State Department official said Thursday.
Computer gamers who enjoy solving logic and memory puzzles will find plenty of rewarding head-scratchers in "Aura: Fate of the Ages," a $20 adventure inspired by point-and-click titles such as the classic "Myst."
Previously unseen artifacts recovered from the wreckage of the Titanic by a team of explorers are to go on display in Britain.
Excavations at a little-known Mayan ruin in Guatemala indicate it was once one of the largest and most sophisticated cities in the preclassic Mayan world.
Forty-one artifacts estimated to be between 2,000 and 3,000 years old and worth more than $1 million, were returned to the Peruvian government Friday by the U.S. government.
Every college has a student who turns out to be the self-anointed music authority, and at my school that student was me. I was the college newspaper's rock columnist, I managed the on-campus record...
One of our most habitual, reflexive cultural tendencies is to rank things--from best to worst, from most popular to least popular and so on. This is fine if you're near the top of the list, but not...
EVERY MORNING'S newspaper carries another story of new job losses. We hear the recession has been over for quite a while, but the percentage of workers who are jobless has not fallen as after previ...
Art fraud is probably as old as art itself. In the 14th century, Italian stonecarvers copied Greek and Roman busts and other statuary, then purposely chipped their works so they could peddle them a...
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