LiDAR was the key technology that enabled Ramón Celis to uncover the full scale of Guiengola. Unlike traditional ...

By Gwynne Dyer – Friday, 13 August, is the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The capital ... but whichever of the older Eurasian civilizations reached the Americas first ...

In a parallel that speaks to the similarities of our cultures, the Feathered Serpent (Serpiente Emplumada), Quetzalcóatl, was one of the most fundamental gods of the ancient Mexican civilization ...

But new research led by Brandeis anthropologist Charles Golden and Andrew Scherer, associate professor of anthropology at Brown University, found signs that communities in the Western Maya Lowlands of ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Indigenous women in Mexico still make mole sauce using ancient tools like the metate grinding stone. We visit chef Evangelina Aquino Luis of Nana Vira in Oaxaca to ...