An international team of researchers sequenced the genomes of seven individuals who lived in the ancient Maya city of Copán, in present-day Honduras, during the Classic period (250–950 CE). The study, ...

The pre-Columbian archaeological pieces originated ... 26 pieces of art to Benin that had been looted during the colonial era. The article was written with the assistance of a news analysis ...

Languages: English, Spanish The constructions are earthworks built in the pre-Columbian era—meaning prior to the period of European colonization. They represent the remnants of a variety of ...

Archaeologists working in Mexico City have unearthed hundreds of obsidian artifacts dating back to pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the Mexica Empire, according to a new study published in the journal ...

Her research helped Mexicans understand their pre-Columbian national heritage, in its sophisticated engineering, gardening, artistry, and cosmology, as being as glorious as that of Mediterranean ...

Teotihuacan was one of the largest metropolitan centers in ancient Mesoamerica in the pre-Columbian era. Six ancient individuals unearthed from the Teotihuacan between the third and seventh ...

The study authors also evaluated decades of data recording tree species across the Amazon, searching for signs of species known to be managed and domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples. The new ...

This is the first in a two-part series on the voyages of the Chinese in the pre-Columbian era. Here, Victoria Bela examines the proposition that ancient mariners from the East had set foot upon ...

and green stones that were used to decorate the bodies of our pre-Columbian ancestors. They tell us about a bygone era and complete one more piece of this puzzle of Costa Rican Elías Alberto Quirós ...

This is the second in a two-part series on the voyages of the Chinese in the pre-Columbian era. Here, Victoria Bela examines the possibility that explorers from the East travelled to Australia and ...

Pre-Columbian is a term used to describe an era of thriving indigenous art in the Americas before the arrival of Christopher Columbus. “Although this is a wonderful collection, it really doesn ...