An airborne lidar survey recently revealed hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial sites in southern Mexico. The 32,800-square-mile area was surveyed by the Mexican Instituto Nacional de ...

An extremely important 1-ton sculpture, sometimes referred to by archaeologists as an “Earth Monster” or Monument 9, was repatriated to Mexico from a private collection in Colorado in May 2023, ...

A landmark study is reporting the discovery of nearly 500 ancient monuments in Mexico using airborne laser mapping. The newly discovered sites are thought to date back at least 2,500 years, in between ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ancient Central American people may have designed their cities around an early iteration of the ...

"Lost Caverns of Ixalan" incorporates Mesoamerican cultures, dinosaurs, vampires and pirates. 'Lost Caverns of Ixalan' centers Aztec, Olmec, Mayan culture in huge new 'Magic: the Gathering' set ‘Lost ...

Hundreds of ancient Mesoamerican ceremonial sites built over a period of about 600 years have been uncovered. This comes after the discovery of the first such site – Aguada Fénix – was announced in ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered two Olmec reliefs chiseled into large, circular stones that are thought to depict local rulers performing ritual contortion. The twin pieces were found in ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED An airborne lidar survey recently ...

‘Lost Caverns of Ixalan’ centers Aztec, Olmec, Mayan culture in huge new ‘Magic: the Gathering’ set The world’s oldest trading card game, “Magic: The Gathering,” returns this week to a world drawn ...

The world’s oldest trading card game, “Magic: The Gathering,” returns this week to a world drawn from real Mesoamerican cultures. Unlike the usual fantasy fare of elves and dragons, the hundreds of ...