History books are filled with powerful kingdoms that ruled for centuries, building massive cities and changing the world ...

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Samhain: A Celtic celebration held on November 1, the precursor to modern-day Halloween. Pure white cats are fairly uncommon, ...

The Princeton University Art Museum has named Joanne P. Baron as Peter Jay Sharp, Class of 1952, Curator and Lecturer in the ...

In my book, Olmec Language and Literature, I explain how I deciphered the Olmec language. One of the most important documents used in my research was a Bi-lingual Mayan-Olmec text inscribed on a brick ...

Mexican Cultural Center DuPage (MCCD) in coordination with Meztli Mexico and in partnership with the College of DuPage Public Art Project (COD) and the DuPage Convention & Visitors Bureau (DCVB) ...

This story appears in the March 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. Be sure you’re the first woman somewhere,” an editor advised budding photographer Dickey Chapelle as World War II escalated.

The history of chocolate, and its creation from the beans of the cacao tree, can be traced to the ancient Maya, and even earlier to the ancient Olmecs of Southern Mexico. The word ‘chocolate’ may lead ...

Archaeologists in Mexico are racing to save 14 fragile rubber balls that date to roughly 3,200 to 3,600, made by the ancient Olmecs. Credit: INAH/María del Pilar Ponce Jiménez. – Public Domain.

Archaeologists are racing to stop the deterioration of 14 ancient rubber balls— the oldest of their kind — that were part of the ritual “ball game” played in Mesoamerica. The balls, discovered in 1988 ...

Archaeologists found 14 Mesoamerican rubber balls in 1988 in Mexico and are now racing to stop their deterioration, officials said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Archaeologists are racing to stop the ...