Did you know scientists have finally cracked the mystery behind the ancient Mayan calendar? For years, people were fascinated by its complex design and thought it might predict the end of the world.

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

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Is your knowledge of the ancient Maya as extraordinary as their pyramids?

If you are sneezing this spring, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, specks ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

“It has been documented ethnographically that many cofradías used the traditional 260-day Maya calendar to schedule and perform rituals, and that during rituals devoted to the feasts of the ...

Scientists are working against the clock to unravel the vast network of mechanisms by which AD affects our nervous system. We know, for example, that AD is characterized by a build-up of tau ...