Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities -- such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital -- were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running...

With over 20 million copies of her novels in print, New York Times best-selling author Elizabeth Lowell has proven to be a formidable voice in romantic suspense. Beautiful Sacrifice stars archaeologist Lina Taylor, who is tapped by former ICE officer Hunter Johnson to help recover stolen Mayan artifacts. As the two dig deeper into the mystery, their mutual attraction becomes irresistible-but a sinister death cult lurks in the shadows, ready to pounce...

"Rachel Morgan's frank and incisive history begins with Richard Wetherill's "discovery" of Mesa Verde in Colorado in 1888. Subsequent expeditions by amateurs, looters, and budding professional archaeologists abetted the devastation of Indigenous sites throughout the Southwest. These expeditions became the proving grounds for different conceptions of what archaeology should be and how it should be practiced. Ultimately, revulsion at the work of nineteenth-century...