Reseachers discovered several ancient geoglyphs — massive designs etched into the ground — in Peru using a pioneering new technique. Archaeologists harnessed the power of deep learning, a form of ...

Archaeologists found three new drawings from tens of thousands of years ago in a Spanish cave. They used a visual technique called stereoscopic photography to see the cave art like never before. The ...

Its fear-splitting screech reverberates throughout space and time. Swiss and Norwegian neuroscientists have discovered that the ancient Aztec death whistle — often credited with emitting the scariest ...

A Japanese research team trained an artificial intelligence that helped locate 303 new geoglyphs in the mysterious Nazca Desert of Peru. The ancient drawings add to the 430 geoglyphs found in the area ...

Archaeologists have found the largest grouping of cave art drawings made by Native Americans prior to the arrival of Spanish explorers. Scientists took thousands of high-tech photos to scan the ...

A giant temple to the Aztec god of the wind and a court where the Aztecs played a deadly ball game have been discovered in the heart of Mexico City. Archaeologists unveiled the rare finds Wednesday ...

The Aztec Empire once hosted an expansive trade network that brought volcanic glass to its capital from right across Mesoamerica, from coast to coast. The largest compositional study of obsidian ...

White-lipped peccaries may not be glamorous-looking, but like their truffle-sniffing cousins, they sometimes turn up treasure. On the trail of the pig-like creatures in Brazil, researchers made an ...

Ancient South Americans were apparently inspired by fossilized dinosaur tracks in what is now eastern Brazil, where they cut figures into the rock, imprinted tens of millions of years earlier by the ...