Researchers hacked through more than three miles of vegetation to get to the site, which lies out of bounds of familiar logging tracks. There, they found unique carved stelae and altars ...

From a buried stone giant unearthed by a farmworker in 1850s Veracruz to the towering jungle pyramids of El Mirador, this is the story of the civilizations that shaped Mesoamerica long before the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Olmec culture deeply shaped later Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztecs. Danny Lehman/The Image Bank via Getty Images An ...

From a buried colossal head unearthed by a farm worker in 1850s Veracruz to the towering pre-Classic pyramids of El Mirador, ...

The ancient Maya are renowned for their mathematical mastery as calendar creators, pioneering astronomers, and pyramid ...

El Paso Community College philosophy professor Manuela Alejandra Gomez has been named adviser and research associate for Harvard’s Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project, contributing her ...

In a recent statement, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) reported the discovery of a lost Maya city hidden deep within the Calakmul Biosphere Reserv ...

A trio of researchers from the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the University of Arizona, and Colgate University has found examples of Mesoamerican structures aligned ...

"Mesoamerica" is a term used to define a culture area encompassing present-day Mexico and Central America. Characterized by similarities in agricultural development, urbanization and ceremonial ...

An extremely important 1-ton sculpture, sometimes referred to by archaeologists as an “Earth Monster” or Monument 9, was repatriated to Mexico from a private collection in Colorado in May 2023, ...