Albers’s interest in pre-Columbian art dates to his tenure at the Bauhaus, but in Mexico Albers discovered that the very methods and techniques he had pursued in Germany predated him by millennia.

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The Cleveland Museum of Art's excellent collection of pre-Columbian art, augmented by a small but choice selection of Native-American objects, will go back on view for the first time in eight ...

The Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art welcomes visitors from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Regular admission costs 10,000 Chilean pesos (about $12), ...

Most of the archaeological and art-history research in the pre-Columbian field has focused on Meso-America and the Andes Mountains, where the Inca and Maya and other well-known ancient cultures lived.

MEXICO CITY -- The Mixtec Indian with the misshapen head lived in the mountains of southern Mexico at the end of the first millennium. When he died as a teenager, his peculiar skull was engraved ...

In a 15-minute videotape that tomb robbers in Guatemala are circulating among art dealers and archaeologists, there are several views of a milky-colored limestone slab, about 4 by 5 feet.

(Pre-Columbian art spans 3,000 years and vast territory.) But one display near the start explains how Meso-American cities were designed to evoke nature -- pyramids as sacred mountains, ...