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It's not just a candy conundrum: the question has long interested both biologists and anthropologists who wonder how and why cacao became so important to ancient Mesoamerican civilizations such as ...

Its most famous structure, the Temple of the Inscriptions, has provided archeologists an invaluable look into the Mayan civilization. Partly thanks to its well-protected and detailed hieroglyphics ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of ...

The Indiana Pacers beat the New York Knicks 125-108, ending their “great” season. Craig Carton, Danny Parkins, and Mark Schlereth ask what went wrong for the Knicks, and if they should feel proud.

(Jessica Patterson) I had the recent honor and pleasure of chatting with Don Patterson in San Miguel de Allende about his fascinating career in Mesoamerican archaeology, which spanned three ...

The spirit of America’s pastime appeared in full force at a special MLB PLAY BALL event hosted at the United States Army Garrison Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, N.Y., last Friday. For a third consecutive ...

Kamiya David-Poimafisi, 16 (at left) wore her mum's school ball dress to her own ball this year. Her mum Rose David (right) designed the dress for its first outing in 1998, when she too was 16.

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"We are not only Indigenous, but also European, African and Asian.” It is well known that the Mesoamerican lands conquered by the Spaniards in the 16th century were inhabited by Indigenous ...

It’s a blast from the long-ago past. Archaeologists unearthed a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan city in Guatemala — complete with pyramids and mysterious monuments — that reveals new traces of t ...