*Latest research from Newcastle University indicates sharks may be a better predator for long spine sea urchins than lobsters *A sheep and cattle farmer from the Jordan River Valley says the extension ...

Pre-Columbian Mexico was one of world's cradles of civilization, and home to civilizations including the Olmec, Maya, Zapotec ...

The show, curated by Ruben C. Cordova, runs through Feb. 9 and features more than 75 works that span the breadth of San ...

Costumes and face painting are encouraged. The tradition of celebrating Día de Los Muertos has deep roots in Hispanic history and the ancient American civilizations of the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec. The ...

Mary McFadden, who has died aged 85, was a much-married American socialite who, by her own account, “fell into fashion ...

Naperville has no shortage of Halloween happenings, from an actual Halloween Happening to lots of trick-or-treat events, scary story gatherings and costume contests. Here’s a rundown of some of ...

The first episode of the series focuses on the rise and fall of Indigenous empires in the Americas — the Olmec, Inca, Maya and Aztec, which predated the arrival of the Spaniards and other ...

from the Taino to the Olmec, Inca, Maya, Aztec, and more. Despite the fact that they were ultimately decimated by the conquistadors, these societies had an enduring influence on culture ...

A lot of what we know about them first sprang from the discovery of these monumental Olmec heads. Some of them are 11 feet high, and some of them are 50 tons," said Justin Witte, curator from the ...

Olmec Stone Head. Credit: Quite Peculiar, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Aztecs and the Mayans are the most well-known Mesoamerican civilizations, but, in fact, the Olmecs pre-existed them. The Olmecs were the ...