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.…
Archaeologists investigating the core of the Pyramid of the Sun, at Teotihuacan on the outskirts of Mexico City, have discovered the ceremonial…
A gold monkey-head pendant has been returned to Peru thanks to the intervention of the country’s ambassador Luis Valdivieso. The artefact, which…
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…