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 ...

While working in Quito, Ecuador, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Larry Gardner spent weekends learning about Andean culture and artifacts ... collection of Pre-Columbian Pottery and gold ...

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 ...

Now, centuries later, a new study reveals that it was also a node in one of the most sophisticated trade networks in pre-Columbian America ... of 788 obsidian artifacts excavated from the Templo ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among paintings by American artists and memorabilia from Tennessee’s 1897 Centennial Exposition — the event for which the Parthenon was built — she found a random assortment of pre-Columbian pottery ...

The artifacts had almost no identifying information ... However it happened, the museum now has 255 pre-Columbian pieces donated by Montgomery and someone named Edgar York, whom Seymour knows ...