Is your knowledge of the ancient Maya as extraordinary as their pyramids?

At its height, the ancient city of Hattuşa, capital of the Hittite civilization, must have been awe-inspiring. Built into a steep hillside in what is today central Türkiye, the city was ringed ...

Among the rocks and marine fossils, scientists have found fossilized pollen from the Late Cretaceous and Early Paleocene periods that reflects changes in the surrounding ecosystems. The pollen reveals ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

The Aztecs didn't discover obsidian. It was already the most common raw material in Mesoamerica when they arrived in the ...

Why No One Talks About India’s Pyramid-Like Structures Introduction: The Pyramid Obsession When someone mentions the word ...

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

A 1,700-year-old altar recently discovered at the ancient Maya city of Tikal has revealed unexpected evidence of ...

By 1697, Nojpeten, the last independent Mayan city, fell, and the civilization was largely forgotten ... "gardens" to calculate the yield of the ancient islanders' crops. However, Davis and ...

A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it ...