13+ hour, 3+ min ago  (430+ words) Hidden beneath northern Mexico, an ancient village remained unnoticed for centuries until modern construction unexpectedly brought it back into view. The village, known as La Ci'nega, lies in the valley and canyon of the Coc'spera River, near the border with…...

23+ hour, 29+ min ago  (60+ words) dotdotnews Maize, Gold, and the Jaguar has opened at Beijing's Capital Museum, featuring around 800 artifacts from Mexico and Peru and offering Chinese audiences a journey through 3, 000 years of Mayan and Andean civilizations. Watch This | World's largest-span steel arch bridge gets…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (83+ words) Lady K'abel (also known as Lady Snake Lord and Lady Water Lily Hand) is considered by archaeologists to be the greatest ruler of the Mayan Late Classic era. Archaeologists have considered her to be a queen regnant of El Peru-Waka…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (334+ words) The Classic Maya Collapse has baffled historians for years leading to a number of theories but thanks to new research one has become the most likely. The Maya civilization began around 3, 500 years ago originating in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico....

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (498+ words) Ancient DNA extracted from human remains in Peru shows that long-distance migration along the Pacific coast began centuries before the Inca Empire expanded into the region. A study published in Nature Communications traces this movement to at least the 13th century,…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (597+ words) Ancient DNA reveals web of marriage and migration in Peru centuries before Inca rule " Image for illustrative purposes only (Image credits: Pixabay) Peru's Pacific shoreline hosted far more movement and interconnection than archaeologists once assumed. A new international study of…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (412+ words) New research is reshaping views of how the ancient Maya economy worked, pointing to a network of purpose-built marketplaces that may have supported daily trade across parts of the Maya Lowlands. The study suggests these places were not informal gathering…...

4+ day, 22+ min ago  (433+ words) A new study from Cyprus suggests pigeons lived alongside humans and were already moving toward domestication nearly 3, 400 years ago. The findings push back the earliest direct evidence for pigeon domestication by almost a thousand years and offer a different view…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (309+ words) The stone lintel by Mayuy that was recently repatriated to Mexico Courtesy the Consulate General of Mexico in New York A Maya stone lintel was recently returned to Mexico after it was taken to the Mexican consulate in New York…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (310+ words) In the depths of the Mexican jungle, researchers believe they've uncovered one of the last strongholds of the Maya civilisation A team of archaeologists have uncovered new evidence that a site in a remote corner of the Mexican jungle may…...