In the Guatemalan lowlands, the ruins of Tikal emerged from the forest, then its inscriptions revealed a world of dynasties, invasions, and high-stakes “Star Wars” fought for conquest. This chapter ...

‘Molotov Man’, a famous photograph of Sandinista guerrillas at the walls of the national guard headquarters in Estelí, Nicaragua, in July 1979. Photograph: Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos The journalist ...

It used to be thought that ancient Mesoamerican monuments were built and used predominantly by powerful leaders and ruling classes. Among the early Maya, however, the site of Aguada Fénix would have ...

The ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica left behind a rich artistic legacy that continues to captivate and intrigue modern scholars and enthusiasts. Among the myriad of themes that Mesoamerican art ...

ARCHAEOLOGY holds no more compelling mystery than that of the Olmec Indians, who ruled the Gulf coast of Mexico even before the time of Christ. The well-known Mayan, Toltec and Aztec civilizations all ...

Racing against time, the light turns to something before dusk: The rhythm matters: My own American version of an Irish jig: Untold stories appear: Pictures are designing architecture: My lenses see ...

The vagus nerve is a vine of nerve fibers with roots in nearly every organ and shoots in the brain. It helps us detect a racing heart, rising blood pressure, stomachache, discomfort, an overzealous ...

As the race to the White House intensifies, the prospect of the U.S. finally having its first female president is getting closer. Kamala Harris would be far from the first woman to run a country, but ...

For John Leguizamo, his 2017 one-man Broadway play “Latin History for Morons” was his introduction into addressing and tackling the “erasure of our Latin history.” Now in “American Historia: The ...