Mexico might be renowned as a beach lover’s ideal destination, yet the allure for history lovers is even greater. With a ...

Once you’ve got the lay of the land, it’s time to dip your toes in the warm Caribbean water. There’s nothing quite like ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

You’ll stop in Mexico for access to ancient Mayan ruins on the Yucatan Peninsula, cross the engineering wonder ... amid the ruins of the Panama Viejo archeological site in Panama City. In Ecuador and ...

Discovered in the ruins of Tikal, the altar sheds light on strained relations between the Maya city and Teotihuacán—which was ...

Many ancient cities have withstood the test of time, with their populations continuously residing there, seamlessly blending history with modern life. Damascus, founded in 3000 B.C.E., is regarded ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was ...

A 1,000-year-old altar from Mexico's ancient Teotihuacan culture has been discovered in the erstwhile Mayan city of Tikal in ...

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