The exhibit runs through June 7 at the Cranbrook Institute of Science.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Olmec culture deeply shaped later Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztecs. Danny Lehman/The Image Bank via Getty Images An ...

As the son of archaeologists, National Geographic Explorer David Stuart spent his childhood wandering ancient Maya ruins—and helped shape what we know about the civilization today.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Nelson-Atkins Museum is showcasing Mesoamerican art for the first time in four decades, featuring over 250 artifacts, some of which are more than 3,000 years old. This ...

Learn more about Zelia Nuttall, a self-taught scholar who helped uncover many Mesoamerican artifacts.

The great cities of the Maya lowlands dominated the Early Classical period, as we take a look at the latest instalment of our ...

Nowadays, the ruins of Tikal, an ancient Maya city in northern Guatemala, have been largely reclaimed by the jungle. Howler monkeys jump from pyramid to pyramid. Bats hide in the crevices of abandoned ...

Origins and development of Mesoamerican civilization / Janine Gasco ... [et al.] -- Late postclassic Mesoamerica / Robert M. Carmack ... [et al.] -- The Mesoamerican world at Spanish contact / Robert ...

“You had to hold your breath and dive a little to get through.” That’s how speleologist Katiya Pavlova summarized the experience of crawling through a six-inch-high, water-filled cleft in the isolated ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... All communication relies on a code of sorts, a combination of symbols, sounds or gestures that — once there is a common understanding of them — form a ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – An extremely important 1-ton sculpture, sometimes referred to by archaeologists as an “Earth Monster” or Monument 9, was repatriated to Mexico from a private collection in ...