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, ...

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.

Referees, meanwhile, have faced criticism for inconsistent responses, sometimes ignoring racist abuse, sometimes failing to ...

Carved from wood more than five centuries ago, a small skull faced mask held today at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore ...

American food didn’t begin in diners or drive-thrus—it began in Indigenous fields that quietly handed the world some of its ...

Celebrate World Chocolate Day with 10 chocolate treats in the UAE, from artisan chocolates and gelato to molten fondants and alfajores, with prices starting from Dh12.

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, ...