The Aztec, Olmec, and Maya of Mesoamerica are known to have made ... from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua (regional map). Ancient rubber makers harvested latex from rubber trees and ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

The discovery also sheds light on how the Aztec society evolved — introducing more standardized religion and control before the empire fell in 1521 — by showing how obsidian use changed over time.

Khipus are knotted-string devices that were used in the Inca Empire for communication and for recording information. Khipus are little understood, in part because most khipus are in museum ...

The discovery also sheds light on how the Aztec society evolved — introducing more standardized religion and control before the empire fell in 1520 — by showing how obsidian use changed over time.

Chavín was a major center of ritual activity between 1200 B.C. and 400 B.C., before the birth of the Inca empire. The complex included stone structures built around open plazas. As people added ...

In 2022, we told you about a study reporting evidence that an ancient Peruvian people called the Wari laced the beer served at their feasts with hallucinogens—particularly a substance derived ...

The gravity quantum field is calculated in flat spacetime. The curved classical metric is calculated using the expectation value of the gravity quantum field. Credit: Mikko Partanen and Jukka Tulkki / ...

This ancient tradition of worshipping mountain spirits dates back to a time before the Inca Empire, between 500 and 1000 CE, but another theory surrounding Cerro El Cono predates even these ...