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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, art history buffs head to the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art (Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino). The museum's permanent collection includes a diverse assemblage of pottery ...

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 conquistadors were hardly the first to set foot here. In the pre-Columbian era, some 80 Indigenous communities inhabited the region alongside the Maya, a civilisation that flourished between ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tattooing is one of the oldest and most widespread art forms in the world, and often the designs we decide to commit permanently to our skin are thick with meaning and cultural biases. Studying a ...