Even though archaeological and scientific tools have discovered much about these ancient civilizations, including facts about ...

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 ...

And if archaeology hadn't emerged in the 18th century, many of these civilizations would have become permanently lost to time ...

Perhaps the greatest Maya mystery of all is the cause of the civilization’s abrupt decline. The last dated stela erected at Tikal was put up in a.d. 869; the last anywhere in the Maya world ...

A major study using data from more than a thousand archaeological sites examines the transition from primitive egalitarianism ...

History often paints a complex picture of its key figures. This article delves into the lives of 20 individuals who were ...

The Maya civilization thrived at Tikal and in other cities until it declined after about A.D. 900, for reasons that are much debated. Before that, Teotihuacan had also declined, from about the ...