Located near modern-day St. Louis, in the fertile floodplains of the Mississippi River Valley, Cahokia was once the largest urban center north of Mesoamerica. At its peak, around 1050 to 1200 CE ...

Unearthing a Lost Metropolis: Cahokia's Grand Scale Located near modern-day St. Louis, in the fertile floodplains of the Mississippi River Valley, Cahokia was once the largest urban center north of ...

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MM8452_221202_000307The small mask, made of jade mosaic with spondylus shell for the eyes and teeth, represents a manifestation of the Storm God. It was laid on the chest of a king buried at ...

The Walters Art Museum’s new Latin American galleries open with a work by Peruvian-born artist Kukuli Velarde: Inspired by the Inca tradition of stacking stones to mark a place as sacred, “Wak ...

A new study from the University of Oxford reveals the complex history of canines indigenous to Mesoamerica. Genome analysis suggests that dogs migrated south with mobile agrarian communities up to ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study from the University of Oxford reveals the complex history of canines indigenous to Mesoamerica. Genome analysis suggests that ...

Their antecedents are ancient (Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese characters, Mesoamerican pictograms), though the journey from their modern birthplace (Japan circa the turn of the millennium) to their ...

Much of what is understood about Mesoamerica during the time of the Aztec comes from either sources written by the Mexica themselves or by the Spanish after 1519. The region was rich with other ...

Indigenous Mesoamerican cultures were the first to recognize that Ipomoea tricolor — commonly called Mexican morning glory or just morning glory — has psychoactive properties. Knowing of I ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The fungus from which LSD was first synthesized has finally been observed and described by researchers who suspected a fuzz inside the seed ...

Follow Fargo Road around the north and east sides of Woodhenge and where it goes left fork right (5.54) through concrete blocks onto a bit of the old road now a bridleway.