Anthropology and Archaeology Professor Andrew Scherer explores social and ritual contexts of precolonial Mayan violence.

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Deep in the Chiapas jungle, a hidden set of Maya murals survived centuries of decay, forcing scholars to rethink sacrifice, war, and royal power in the Classic period. This chapter follows their ...

The mythical “Cloud People” have descended from legend — straight into real life. Archaeologists in southern Mexico have ...

Vice President J.D. Vance on Friday drew an equivalence between the modern left’s obsession with aborting children and the ancient Mayan people’s obsession with sacrificing children on […] ...

The vice president framed the abortion debate as a choice between Christian civilization and ancient pagan practices.

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One of the most memorable details described by INAH and repeated by later reporting, the owl’s beak curves over a painted stucco face thought to represent a Zapotec lord, possibly an ancestor figure ...

The president of Mexico called the discovery of a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in Oaxaca the "most significant archaeological ...

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The father of archaeology has insisted the engineering precision of ancient Egypt's pyramids could not be explained by human ...

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