reporting from Santiago, Chile — First in a series of dispatches by Carolina A. Miranda exploring the art and architecture of Chile. Chilean architect Smiljan Radic is best known for seemingly coming ...

An auction of pre-Columbian artifacts that went ahead in Paris despite protests from the Mexican government ended as a stunning flop, with a sales total including fees that did not even reach half of ...

U.S. and Puerto Rican archaeologists say they have found the best-preserved pre-Columbian site in the Caribbean, which could shed light on virtually every aspect of Indian life in the region, from ...

The pre-Columbian Indian societies that once lived in the Amazon rainforests may have been much larger and more advanced than researchers previously realized. Together with Brazilian colleagues, ...

The new galleries have 16-foot ceilings that impart a lofty aura to the works they display. Thatâs exactly what Susan Bergh, the museumâs respected curator of pre-Columbian and Native-American art, ...

MEXICO CITY – The Sotheby's auction house can't sell 51 pre-Columbian Mexican artifacts because they are protected national historical pieces, the Mexican government said Wednesday. The National ...

Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand. But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 years ...

A study last month in the journal Science argued that pre-Columbian peoples had little impact on the western and central Amazon, going against a recently composed picture of the early Amazon inhabited ...

A new study shows that pre-Columbian people of a culturally diverse but not well-documented area of the Amazon in South America significantly altered their landscape thousands of years earlier than ...

A sale of pre-Columbian art at Christie’s Paris yesterday yielded a robust €2.5 million ($3 million), the auction house’s highest total yet for the category. Of the 39 lots on offer, only three failed ...