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Lasers reveal hundreds of geoglyphs made by a mysterious civilization in the Amazon rainforest thousands of years agoA new lidar survey of dense Amazonian rainforest has revealed hundreds of earthworks made by a mysterious civilization two millennia ago.
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Archaeologists find 2,800-year-old burial of person clutching sea turtle vessel in El SalvadorAn unusual 2,800-year-old Mesoamerican burial found in El Salvador included a face-down skeleton clutching a sea turtle vessel.
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Sacrificed Inca children died very differently than we thought, study findsA new look at three children who died in the Inca human sacrifice ceremony known as Capacocha reveals their last few months and moments.
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Mummy mask with wig: A 1,000-year-old 'false head' found in Peru that was crafted with real human hair and toxic red cinnabarAstonishing Artifacts Stylized masks like this one adorned pre-Inca mummies in Peru hundreds of years ago.
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'One of the oldest gravestones of a free Black person in America' discovered in BostonExperts have identified the gravestone of Boston, a free Black man who died in 1729.
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'It's a huge deal': Archaeologists discover second cannonball from the Battle of the Alamo, and it was likely fired by TexansArchaeologists have discovered a second cannonball from the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, and now they have one from each side.
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Mask of Mictlantecuhtli: A 500-year-old mask of the Aztec god of the underworld, who tore apart the dead as they entered his realmAstonishing Artifacts This skull-shaped mask was made to be used in a ritual involving the Aztec god of death.
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'Political motivations' of Inca emperor led to the sacrifice of 3 children on a snow-capped volcano over 500 years ago, study suggestsAn analysis of corn, cassava and coca plants discovered with sacrificed Inca children reveals they died during the reign of one of the last Inca emperors.
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Thanks to natural selection, Indigenous Andeans may digest potatoes better than anyone else in the world, study findsAfter domesticating potatoes 10,000 years ago, the ancient people of the Andes evolved to have more copies of a key gene involved in digesting starch.
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