The Olmec are the earliest known Mesoamerican civilisation (also referred to as the “mother culture” of Mesoamerica). The name ‘Olmec’ comes from the Nahuatl word: Ōlmēcatl or Ōlmēcah, meaning ‘rubber people’.
Dozens of Maya elite are buried within Tikal’s temples.
The temple had been ritually demolished in ancient times.
Archaeologists excavating in Abusir, south of Cairo near Saqqara, Egypt, have discovered the ruins of what may be one of the four lost Ancient Egyptian “sun temples”.
Ghost tracks found in salt flats have been identified as prehistoric footprints from the last ice age.
More than 11,000 years ago, young children trekking with their families through what is now White Sands National Park in New Mexico discovered the stuff of childhood dreams: muddy puddles made from the footprints of a giant ground sloth.
Although this 1700 years old luxury villa was excavated and examined both in 1856 and in the 1990s, it still has secrets to reveal.
New insights have been revealed about Monks Mound, a giant earthwork at the ancient city of Cahokia.
Archaeologists have recovered a Maya chocolate-type vessel from the Cueva de la Cruz, near the coastal resort of Playa del Carmen, in Mexico’s Yucatán.
Archaeologists have discovered a unique clay figurine that may represent a prehistoric water goddess in Bavaria, Germany.
Archaeologists excavating a passageway in the Mammoth Cave, the world’s longest known cave system, have uncovered artefacts dating from the 19th and 20th century.
The complex had altars for Mercury, Jupiter and Hercules.
