Long thought to be a fortress, Guiengola has been revealed as a sprawling city thanks to airborne lidar analysis ...

British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchased some ancient stones with mysterious inscriptions on them at a flea market in ...

Deep in the Mexican jungle, anthropological archaeologist Charles Golden, P’28, unearths remnants of a civilization of warriors, artists, and kings that still feels present and alive.

Mankind has sought civilization since the earliest days of recorded history. However, some kingdoms were the first to start ...

Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it became Mexico’s most beloved salamander and efforts to prevent its extinction flourished, it was a sneaky god. “It’s an ...

In a parallel that speaks to the similarities of our cultures, the Feathered Serpent (Serpiente Emplumada), Quetzalcóatl, was one of the most fundamental gods of the ancient Mexican civilization ...

Learn how environmental changes have humbled many of history’s most successful and dominant cultures.