For most people, the image that comes to mind at the mention of archaeology is ancient tombs or dinosaur fossils, not cutting ...

Recent discoveries in an archaeological site in Mexico sheds new light into the beginning of the Maya civilization, and how ...

A mysterious formation in South America leaves visitors wondering whether this "Egyptian Sphinx" is a work of human hands or ...

Square-shaped skull discovered at Balcón de Montezuma archaeological site in Tamaulipas, Mexico, showing unique cranial modification technique. ( Technical Archive of the Physical Anthropology Section ...

Archaeologists in West Texas recently discovered that vivid artwork painted on rocks by the Pecos River of Southwest Texas ...

Maya collapse wasn’t driven by drought alone, but by a cascading breakdown of interconnected political, social, and economic ...

Mexico is experiencing historic growth in cultural tourism, underscoring the importance of its heritage as an economic and ...

The discovery of a carved game board in a Maya compound has given archaeologists a rare, almost cinematic glimpse of everyday ...

Why do people choose to settle in cities, and what motivates them to leave? Modern urban areas continue to gain and lose residents for many reasons ...

Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political ...

The team also extracted plant DNA from the burial of a high-status man. Testing showed that the grave contained significant amounts of DNA from two tree species whose bark was used to make clothes, ...

The passage of time and improvements in technology mean that things that were thought to be immutable become a reality and, ...