It recontextualizes the global reach of this ancient society. Archaeologists working in Mexico City have unearthed hundreds of obsidian artifacts dating back to pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the ...

Finds like this can reshape how historians understand entire societies.

An auction of pre-Columbian artifacts that went ahead in Paris despite protests from the Mexican government ended as a stunning flop, with a sales total including fees that did not even reach half of ...

In his monograph Pyramid, published by Toluca Éditions, photographer Pablo López Luz explores the pre-Columbian influence on modernist architecture in Mexico. Cover of ‘Pyramid’ by Pablo López Luz “It ...

The defining sample : how we pursue the pre-Columbian past / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- On pre-Columbian narrative : representation across the word-image divide / Simon Martin -- Glimpses of a common ...

For many years, Nashville’s Parthenon museum housed hundreds of pre-Columbian artifacts in its collections. Many of the items were accompanied by incomplete information about what they were and where ...

Beneath the dense rainforest canopy of Panama, laser pulses fired from aircraft have exposed what centuries of ground-level exploration missed: a network of pre-Columbian settlements, complete with ...

A total of 395 archaeological artifacts that were kept in Costa Rica’s diplomatic offices in Los Angeles, Miami, and Washington D.C., were repatriated to the country last month. These are ...

List of illustrations -- Introduction : The enigma of the event / Zackary I. Gilmore and Jason M. O'Donoughue -- I. When Practice Becomes History. 1. In the unlikely event : method for temporalizing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ruins of ancient Maya cities like Chichén Itzá and Uxmal have become popular tourist destinations in Mexico thanks to their ...

NPR’s Scott Detrow talks to assistant curator at Nashville’s Parthenon Museum about her idea to repatriate hundreds of pre-Columbian artifacts back to Mexico. It was Bonnie Seymour's first day on the ...