The Tiwanaku civilization thrived high in the Andes Mountains long before the Inca Empire started. Located near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the millennia-old city of Tiwanaku was built almost 13,000 ...

Antonio Pichillá Quiacaín continues his ongoing exploration of the knot and its capacity for metaphor at Elizabeth Xi Bauer ...

Throughout history, great civilisations have risen, flourished and then disappeared, leaving behind ruins, legends and a host ...

Part of the reason is the time period in which it arose. The Maya Classic period, spanning from about A.D. 250 to 900, represents the civilization’s peak.

Step into a world where history, mystery, and the unknown collide. In this video, we dive deep into some of the most ...

Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

The Tiwanaku society thrived around the highest navigable lake in the world – before their mysterious disappearance ...

Have you ever felt thunder shake the windows or watched lightning split the sky and wondered who—or what—might be behind such ...

In the northern part of Guatemala, near Belize, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient Maya city. This newly discovered site, which includes a pyramid and canals, is raising ...

Today, the original lineage carried by ancient American dogs is almost nonexistent. When European settlers colonized the Americas, they brought Eurasian dogs whose ancestry is now expressed in the ...

Pre-contact Central and South American dogs (Canis familiaris) — all dogs preceding contact with European settlers — descended from a single maternal lineage that diverged after dogs entered North ...

Studies have shown that diversification in land use can reduce soil erosion and fertilizer runoff while providing habitats for essential pollinators and local wildlife. On The Acequia Institute's ...