Discover the best museums in Mexico City, from pre-Hispanic collections to modernist and contemporary institutions shaping ...

The mythical “Cloud People” have descended from legend — straight into real life. Archaeologists in southern Mexico have ...

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

A chance discovery in Veracruz uncovers the first Olmec colossal head and opens the mystery of Mesoamerica’s earliest powerful societies. From San Lorenzo and La Venta to lidar-revealed mega-centers ...

Murujuga, also known by the modern name Burrup Peninsula, in northwestern Australia, is home to potentially the world’s oldest and most endangered petroglyphs. Some of the more than one million images ...

On Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, visit the Morton Arboretum in Lisle for a Chocolate Weekend celebrating all things chocolate. Sample an array of chocolate confections and unique items with a chocolate twist ...

Deep in a burial mound, an early Maya ruler lay adorned with hundreds of jade beads on his chest, ankles, and wrists, signaling his high status in this world and the next. Surrounding him were ...

Rubber was an essential material for many people of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, who used it to make objects such as sandals and rubber bands. However, it is perhaps best known as the material used to ...

Relief of Osiris from the Temple of Seti I, Abydos, Egypt. According to Egyptian mythology, Egypt’s first king Osiris sailed around the world spreading knowledge, exactly like the Feathered Serpent ...

Historians date hot chocolate back to 1700 B.C.E., when the Olmec civilization of southern Mexico first roasted cacao beans, though it was not a sweet drink until Europeans added sugar ...

Massive monuments and two carved limestone Olmec reliefs of local rulers have been recovered from the municipality of Tenosique in south-eastern Mexico. The rulers in this extremely rare Olmec relief ...