From the soil of the jungle, a massive stone face weighing 20 tons emerged. The people who carved it disappeared without ...

Somewhere in the sweltering tropical lowlands of Mexico’s Gulf Coast, roughly 3,400 years ago, a civilization was quietly laying the foundations for every great empire that would follow. Long before ...

The roots of writing in the New World have been traced back to a time earlier than researchers thought — as far back as 2,650 years, when the ancient Olmec civilization flourished on Mexico’s Gulf ...

A SLAB inscribed with the oldest writing yet discovered in the New World nearly wound up as landfill in a Mexican road. The archaeologists that salvaged it say the writing dates back nearly 3000 years ...

A team of archaeologists including Professor of Anthropology Stephen Houston recently reported the discovery of what appears to be the oldest writing in the Western Hemisphere. The finding, which was ...

It apparently began around 200 A.D., when a Maya scribe decided that the symbols he was using were just not good enough. When he drew a jaguar, for example, who could be sure that he really meant ...