When people hear about human sacrifice in ancient Mexico, the Aztecs and their dramatic rituals usually steal the show. Giant ...

Archaeologists in El Salvador exhumed human remains believed to be nearly 3,000 years old on Tuesday, the Ministry of Culture ...

Discover who truly ruled ancient Mesoamerica! The Mayans pioneered impressive cities and advanced astronomy around 2000 BCE, ...

At the southern edge of Mexico City, where traffic and buildings surround what remains of an ancient lake landscape, narrow ...

But he won’t be winning any awards—he died more than 1,000 years ago in the Maya empire that once flourished in Mesoamerica.

In a recent statement, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) reported the discovery of a lost Maya city hidden deep within the Calakmul Biosphere Reserv ...

Jaguar: A Grand Exhibition of Ancient Maya and Andean Civilizations, which is currently on view at the Capital Museum in Beijing. For over 3,000 years, from around 2000 BC to the 16th century AD, the ...

Ceramic “tab” figurine with headdress band and potential dot numeration from the Joyas Group, La Blanca, Guatemala. Credit: Julia Guernsey A small ceramic figurine with eleven impressed dots, found at ...

A clay figurine, small enough to cradle in your hand, with 11 dots arranged in columns where its head should be, may depict the oldest known example of written numbers in Mesoamerica. The figurine, ...

This video explores the history of Mesoamerica, detailing the emergence of the Olmec Civilization and concluding with the fall of the last native kingdoms to Spain. Music featured: Johannes Bornlöf - ...

Thank you to the team at the University Libraries @One Center for producing and editing this episode. In this episode of Sagebrushers, University of Nevada, Reno, President Brian Sandoval speaks with ...

The milpa diet, a traditional Mesoamerican eating pattern based on corn, beans, and squash, is gaining attention for its potential health and environmental benefits. Rooted in Indigenous agricultural ...