By Theodoros Karasavvas Ancient Origins Park officials from the Mesa Verde National Park in Montezuma County, Colorado, announced that vandals severely damaged archaeological artifacts in order to write graffiti on the side of a sandstone cliff. Vandals Don’t Show…
By Theodoros Karasavvas Ancient Origins Archaeologists have discovered a sacrificial wolf carefully adorned with some of the best quality Aztec gold ever found. It is believed that the wolf was buried more than five centuries ago in the heart…
By Wu Mingren Ancient Origins Balankanché (which means the ‘Throne of the Sacred Jaguar’) Cavern is a network of caves located in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. This cave network is situated near the famous site of Chichén Itzá, and was…
By Alexis Blue Futurity Using the largest set of radiocarbon dates ever obtained from a single Maya site, archaeologists have developed a precise timeline that clarifies patterns leading up to two major collapses of the ancient civilization. Scientists have long…
By Gillian Kiley Futurity The Grolier Codex, an ancient document that is among the rarest books in the world, has been regarded with skepticism since it was reportedly unearthed by looters from a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, in…
By Adriaan Alsema Colombia Reports The gold inside the sunken galleon San Jose, found off the Caribbean coast of Colombia on Friday, is worth between a staggering $4B and $17B but is disputed by a US investor group…
By James Wiener Ancient History Encyclopedia Despite the popular appeal of the legendary city of El Dorado, our collective understanding of ancient Colombia’s history remains largely obscured by the advanced civilizations of Mesoamerica and the Andes. A new…
By Hillary Ojeda Peru This Week Peru is a country with an abundance of archaeological sites, beautiful and ripe with cultural history. Unfortunately, the resources are lacking to protect all of them from threats such as environmental damage and…
LatinaLista — If visiting Peru’s National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History (MNHAAP) has been on your bucket list, you may be able to check that off sooner than you thought. The MNHAAP opened its virtual doors to cyber-museum…
LatinaLista — Japanese researchers from Yamagata University announced the discovery of 24 geoglyphs among the infamous images in Peru known as the Nazca Plateau. The scientists found the glyphs less than one mile from the city of Nazca and…
By Hillary Ojeda Peru This Week They might not be as sacred as the Holy Grail, but two metal vessels recently discovered in Chachapoyas are turning heads in regards to understanding the region’s ancient history. “The Finding of these…
LatinaLista — Before there was Peru’s Machu Picchu — 650 years to be exact — there was Teyuna, a settlement tucked away in the jungles of northern Colombia. Long forgotten until 1972 when looters stumbled across it and found…
LatinaLista — Walls created with perfectly fitted stones needing no mortar and withstanding the test of millennia have been a hallmark of Incan architecture. These wonders of ancient masonry have long had people scratching their heads and asking, “How’d…
LatinaLista — One sure sign of a country’s healthy economy is its growing housing sector. Unless of course new development “bulldozes” over one of the main industries responsible for that healthy economy. Peru is a country dependent on tourism….
By Rachel Chase Peru This Week Archaeologists undertaking investigations in the Peruvian region of Arequipa discovered a large geoglyph last December. According to Peru21, the geoglyph is approximately 60 meters by 40 meters and is located in the province…
By Rachel Chase Peru This Week The strange 3,000-year-old elongated skulls from Paracas have been submitted to genetic analysis— and the results are rather puzzling. The strangely-shaped Paracas skulls, first discovered in 1924 by Peruvian archaeologist Julio C. Tello,…
LatinaLista — If anyone thought the ancient past has revealed all its secrets, he/she lives under a rock. There’s no better example than what is happening at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala — or more precisely, under Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. Over…
By Rachel Chase Peru This Week Archaeologists working at the Pampa Grande dig site about 50 kilometers outside of Chiclayo have made some fascinating discoveries. El Comercio reports today that investigators have been able to draw some important conclusions…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista Nicholas Hellmuth’s fascination with the ancient Mayas started long before he was part of the team that dug up the tomb of the Jade Jaguar King in Tikal, Guatemala, at age 19. But that’s when…
