Gold is prized for its beauty and rarity but it is also indestructible, the same piece changing forms through history and ...

Agua fresca has been enjoyed in Mexico since the heyday of the Aztec empire. While it's gone through many changes, it's still ...

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

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Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

The altar reveals the presence of powerful rulers from Teotihuacan who were there at a time when a coup ousted Tikal’s Maya ...

It’s still home to the A:shiwi (Zuni) people, a tribe descended from the ancient Ancestral Puebloans ... Outside the crumbling 17th-century Spanish mission, a sign warns this is a ‘culturally ...

Archaeologists uncovered ancient puppet-like figurines. Estimated to be around 2,400 years old, they oddly resemble modern ...

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 ...

About 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...

An ancient Mayan altar in Tikal, a 2,400-year-old city in Guatemala, evidences a quasi-imperial control system before the ...

Parts of the region receive less than an inch of rain in an entire year. Yet, water and greenery are everywhere. This is the nation’s agro-industrial heartland, and, thanks to irrigation canals, ...