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Analyses of Teotihuacans three major pyramids show that the city was shaken by multiple catastrophic earthquakes — and this may have led to its demise.

Artist Gala Porras-Kim nudges people to think more subtly about the repatriation of ancient objects and the role of institutions as both caretakers and current-day repositories of colonial holdings.

The best day trips from Mexico City, including the archeological site Teotihuacán, colorful Puebla with amazing food, and super tall volcanoes.

Ancient artifacts and ruins all over the world have made many scientists question whether our currently accepted understanding ...

Researchers found thousands of other items, but the skeletal remains of the monkey point to the earliest evidence of primate captivity, translocation, and gift diplomacy between Teotihuacán and Mayan elite.

Skeletal remains of the monkey point to the earliest evidence of primate captivity, translocation, and gift diplomacy

The complete skeletal remains of a spider monkey — seen as an exotic curiosity in pre-Hispanic Mexico — grants researchers new evidence regarding social-political ties between two ancient powerhouses: Teotihuacán and Maya Indigenous rulers. 

Some say the mysterious Bosnian Pyramids have changed history, but others call them a hoax. Discoveries continue to legitimize them but why do historians still ignore them?

Her work reframes the way we might understand the seemingly intractable tensions between curating, colonialism, and cultural exchange.

ON NOVEMBER 20, 2021, the artist Gala Porras-Kim wrote a letter to Jane Pickering, director of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology: “I am interested in objects suspended from their original function or purpose by being stored and displayed in institutions solely as historical objects,” she began. This could easily describe any number of the millions of objects held by the museum, but Porras-Kim’s focus was on the Peabody’s collection of thousands of artifacts found in...