Archaeologists working in northern Guatemala (formerly the Mayan city of Dos Pilas) recently discovered fragments of more ...

Scientists have unearthed the body of a 4,500-year-old woman in Peru. What’s surprising is that they found not just her bones ...

Traditionally, excavations deep in the jungles of Mexico, Central, and South America are difficult at best and dangerous at ...

In a world rebuilding itself from the ground up, few visions feel as elemental — and as elegant — as TerraLux. At the ...

It would be too easy and too inaccurate to write these places off as strange anomalies — one-off quirks in a city filled with ...

Summer is, perhaps counterintuitively, the season when many of us find ourselves with our nose constantly in a book. Warm ...

Representative Frank Pallone Jr. of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the committee, tried to upend those plans by asking the ...

A federal judge on Tuesday opened a path for the Trump administration to move forward with deporting a Venezuelan man under ...

It's a true story, but it's not the complete history of early agriculture in the Americas. Maize (corn), beans and Mexican varieties of squash (such as pumpkins) were not widely grown in eastern ...

A new analysis of hundreds of obsidian artifacts from the Aztec Empire has revealed the vast trade networks that supplied ...

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King ...