The Spanish invaders of Mexico called them cenotes. This came from a mishearing of the Maya word tz’onot, which was used to…
The discovery of an intact Moche royal tomb was like something out of an Indiana Jones movie. A gang of impoverished local…
Why were the bodies of a dozen newborn babies placed around the edge of a 1,000-year-old tomb?…
Archaeologists studying 31 obsidian knives from Cantona, a pre-Hispanic site in Mexico, have discovered minute traces of 2,000-year-old human blood, skin, and…
Tiffiny A. Tung University Press of Florida, £64.50 ISBN 978-0813037677 Between AD 600-1000, the Wari Empire represented one of the first politically…
The discovery of a 13th-century priestess at a ritual site in northern Peru is forcing a reassessment of the role of women…
The lost city of a lost civilisation - yet today it is one of the most important Pre-Hispanic sites in South…
The oldest corncobs unearthed in South America have been found in Peru. Dating to 6,700 years ago – at least 2,000 years…
We know, from hieroglyphic references and illustrations, that the ancient Maya and their gods enjoyed a smoke. But physical evidence is rare.…
A gold monkey-head pendant has been returned to Peru thanks to the intervention of the country’s ambassador Luis Valdivieso. The artefact, which…
Archaeologists investigating the core of the Pyramid of the Sun, at Teotihuacan on the outskirts of Mexico City, have discovered the ceremonial…
Patagonia at the end of the Ice Age was not a pleasant place to live: it was a time of great climatic…
I tend to sum countries up by how they treat their archaeological sites and, in common with everyone I know, their…