Throughout human history, our understanding of the past has been reset countless times based on what we think we know ...

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

From the broad impact of contemporary pandemics to those that hit ancient civilizations, every outbreak has imprinted its signature on history. This timeline ... the Inca and Aztec empires.

Every time a civilization reaches the pinnacle of its ... He wants to have a theory of the multiverse where in some different timeline, much like in the movie Interstellar, his wife’s great ...

New archaeological research by Tulane University and the Proyecto Templo Mayor in Mexico reveals how obsidian—a volcanic ...

(La Venta was the site of the first pyramid built in Mesoamerica). This civilization practiced polytheism, but not much is known about the Olmecs' deities other than that they often represented ...

Mexican researcher Sergio Gómez believed the Teotihuacan civilization filled the chamber with pools of mercury to act like a gateway to the underworld for an unknown Mesoamerican ruler.