Fisherman in Brazil’s Amazon uncovers seven pre-Columbian funeral urns, offering rare insight into ancient burial practices ...

Three miles north of the Inner Harbor, by Johns Hopkins University’s main campus, is the Baltimore Museum of Art, home of the ...

In Lima, Peru, gas company workers unearthed a remarkably preserved 1,000-year-old mummy of a boy during pipeline installation. The pre-Inca Chancay c ...

This video provides a detailed map-based summary of Pre-Columbian America, exploring the vast range of indigenous societies, from the advanced urban centers of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca empires to ...

THE CONQUEST OF THE MAYA—J. Leslie Mitchell—Dutton ($3.75). The Conquest of the Maya is written by an archeologist who is also a novelist, hence an enemy of dry-as-dust procedure. Mr.

In southern Mexico, remote sensing technology has recently provided a snapshot of a 15th century archaeological site in its heyday, revealing a bustling city built by the pre-Columbian Zapotec culture ...

This "Columbian theory" for syphilis has gained popularity over the years, but still has its critics. Its simple narrative starts to unravel when experts turn their attention to lesions seen in ...

Eva Peréz Martínez, Zacatlaxcalli Vignette, 2023, Nahua, Watercolor on amate paper, 7 7/8 × 11 1/2 in. (20 × 29.21 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, commissioned with funds provided by ...

Pre-Columbian Peru – and the Americas in general – were no exception, with more than half of the examples studied by the team having exclusively puncture tattoos.