While excavating the ancient fishing village of Áspero in western Peru, archaeologists uncovered a grave from the Caral ...

Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

Remains of other children were also found on three sides of the altar. Lorena Paiz, the archaeologist who led the discovery, ...

Taylor's research focuses on the cultural practices of the Late Prehistoric tribe, which inhabited South Texas between 1300 and 1528 CE. Setting out to analyze and classify a series of relics made ...

The greatest civilisations of humanity – today increasingly merged into the amorphous world of the globalised consumer society – began from three epicentres, in the Fertile Crescent, the Indus Valley ...

These discoveries have provided unprecedented insights into Aztec religious practices and cosmology ... in several Norwegian fjords have revealed previously unknown Viking burial ships dating to the ...

Around the altar, archaeologists found infant burials and evidence of burning rituals that match ... “Everyone knows what happened to the Aztec civilization after the Spanish arrived,” Houston says.

In evaluating the Aztec pochteca as a guild ... Since multiple subtypes were found in the same burial (Subtypes ‘b’ and ‘c’ at Tonina, and Subtypes ‘a’ and ‘b’ at La Libertad), we can infer that they ...

Will Relf, Director of Data at Aztec commented: “As the industry continues to evolve, access to high-quality, timely data is no longer a luxury - it’s a necessity. At Aztec, we are committed ...