Simon Park, who teaches Portuguese history and literature at Oxford University, aims to recast the early period of European exploration as a story of disasters rather than successes. His target is ...

Chile has endured a long and at times tumultuous history over the years. Although the brutal military dictatorship of Augusto ...

The wonders of its Aztec, Mayan, Colonial architecture are becoming known. We know that Mexico is among the lands of living art. Most of us have heard of ... It is not built upon Inca foundations, ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

Such a design resembles other representations of a deity known as the “Storm God,” more common in Teotihuacan than Mayan art. Two bodies ... what happened to the Aztec civilization after ...

Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, a global team of researchers including scholars from Brown University have unearthed a buried ...

Griffith Observatory sits on the south face of Mount Hollywood and overlooks the Los Angeles basin. Its location gives visitors impressive views of the surrounding area, which many rave about.

But before it was what it is now, the land was ruled by the Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs, some of the most notable empires ... The region boasts three UNESCO world heritage sites, including Mayan ruins, ...