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Communities living in Colombia thousands of years ago achieved an engineering wonder of the world based on cooperation among family groups without top-down government, a new study shows.

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The ingenuity of ancient Egyptian engineers may have been even more ahead of their time than we thought. A new study suggests a currently unexplained ancient structure may have been part of a water ...

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Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it's one of the driest deserts in the world. However, the apparent success of this system masks an underlying ...