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The New Atlantis: Ancient and modern cities aren’t so different

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The New Atlantis: Ancient and modern cities aren’t so different

The underlying organizational ingredients of modern cities were present in ancient settlements in the Basin of Mexico. Despite notable differences in appearance and governance...

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Subterranean river discovered beneath Mexico’s Chichen Itza ruins

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Subterranean river discovered beneath Mexico’s Chichen Itza ruins

Scientists reveal cavity 20 metres below the pyramid of Kukulkan, also known as El Castillo. Experts have discovered that the main pyramid at Mexico’s Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza...

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Tombs of Pre-Inca Elite Discovered Under Peru Pyramid

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Tombs of Pre-Inca Elite Discovered Under Peru Pyramid

A complex of tombs recently discovered under a pyramid in Peru offers landmark clues to a thousand-year-old pre-Incan culture at Túcume: a pre-Hispanic site in Peru...

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A glimpse of lost language

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A glimpse of lost language

In the early 1600s in northern Peru, a curious Spaniard jotted down some notes on the back of a letter. Four hundred years later, archaeologists dug up and studied the paper, revealing what appear to be the first traces...

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Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest

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Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest

Deep in the Honduran jungle, in the La Mosquitia valley area, a team of archaeologists unearthed evidence of a lost city, including an effigy of a half-human, half-jaguar spirit, a plaza and a pyramid...

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