THE mystery of an ancient 3,000-year-old “door to hell” dedicated to an Aztec god has been solved after it was stolen from a hidden cave. The Mexican artefact, called the Olmec Cave Mas… ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, the study adds to evidence that statues were more than ...

Researchers were stunned by a haul of ancient objects, some of which had "never before been seen", discovered deep inside an intricate system of man-made tunnels.

The huge sculpture, which dates back more than 500 years, was unearthed from beneath a law school in modern-day Mexico City, which was once part of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire ...