Origins and development of Mesoamerican civilization / Janine Gasco and Michael E. Smith -- Mesoamerica at Spanish contact / Robert M. Carmack -- Mesoamerica and Spain : the conquest / Louise M.

Learn what caused a major population crash in the Maya civilization, driving several cities to fall into ruin.

A 4,500-year-old grave in the Mexican state of Michoacan has revealed a macabre example of ancient dentistry -- the skull of a young man whose upper teeth had been modified to accept a denture made ...

U.S. and Mexican archaeologists have discovered one of the oldest tombs in Mesoamerica, a burial chamber from at least 2,500 years ago in the state of Chiapas that contains the remains of what appears ...

Eduardo de la Cruz intones a ritual prayer to bless seeds of corn in a UCLA professor’s backyard one Friday afternoon. Earlier that day, a group of UCLA students dug little holes in a patch of soft ...

The properties of magnetism have puzzled and intrigued humanity for as long as its existence, but its origins are often associated with ancient Greece. Magnetism's earliest chronicler in Greece, the ...

Origins and development of Mesoamerican civilization / Janine Gasco ... [et al.] -- Late postclassic Mesoamerica / Robert M. Carmack ... [et al.] -- The Mesoamerican world at Spanish contact / Robert ...