Unfired musket balls, bayonets, and cavalry ornaments unearthed in rows suggest that archaeologists have found the spot where hundreds of Mexican soldiers surrendered to the Texas Army after the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836. The victory sealed Texas’ independence from Mexico. Skeletal structure and mitochondrial DNA indicate that there may have been four subgroups […]

Excavations at the Tayinat Citadel in southeastern Turkey have uncovered a well-preserved monumental temple that spanned the time period from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, often thought of as a time of cultural decline and ethnic strife. But Tayinat shows evidence of being the capital of a powerful kingdom with cultural […]