This video provides a detailed map-based summary of Pre-Columbian America, exploring the vast range of indigenous societies, from the advanced urban centers of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca empires to ...

A funerary mask from the Lambayeque culture, made between 900 and 1100 AD. WHY Architecture (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) The collection also draws parallels between the two empires that coexisted ...

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

A "lost" Mexican city built by rivals to the Aztecs has as many buildings as Manhattan and was home to around 100,000 people, according to new research.

Barely visited and covered in vegetation, Espíritu Pampa remains a powerful reminder of a lost empire ...

When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

In their hands, they had their own worlds: the Inca Empire (Tahuantinsuyu) and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. The two rulers created a unique, unrepeatable experience, which is ...

The Inca Empire was a “benevolent, monolithic state, unique in American annals as the only governmental system which combined territorial expansion with the amalgamation of conquered peoples ...

Stanish points out that as strong as the Inca state was, it was a far-flung empire, and its separate regions retained some autonomy.