GUDUTA, India (AP) — The ritual began with a thunderous roll of leather drums, its clamor echoing through the entire village. Women dressed in colorful saris broke into an Indigenous folk dance, ...

A motorist drives along the sea shore with his family in Port Blair, in India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands archipelago, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007. Credit: AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File Subscribe for ...

The Pelasgians were the ancestors of the Greeks, remembered by ancient historians as the very foundation of Hellenic identity ...

In 1991, national parks were established across Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to protect the severely endangered mountain gorillas that roamed the Virunga Mountains (from a ...

Medieval Christians drawing boundaries around ancient Israelite tribes on Holy Land maps had no idea they were influencing how later mapmakers would depict political power. Those red ink lines, meant ...

1. The research team worked on this project for 10 years. They used DNA samples from skeletal remains that were about 600 to 1,000 years old from 124 individuals in order to collect preserved DNA from ...

Thousands of years before Russian fur trappers, Spanish missionaries and American settlers arrived to the Northern California coast, the Northern Pomo Indians called area from the Noyo River to the ...

Tribes in the Puget Sound region have a problem. Many of them live on low-lying reservations surrounded by water. So, as climate change causes the oceans to rise, tribal land is disappearing. Climate ...