Beneath a cattle pasture in Panama’s Coclé province, archaeologist Julia Mayo and her team uncovered a burial that may force a revision of Central American history. The tomb, roughly 1,200 years old, ...

Over millions of years, the Earth’s upper layers have performed a dance that has created mountains, volcanoes, continents, ridges and ocean trenches. Tectonic plates play a key role in this process.

Central Americans observed the 125th anniversary of independence from Spain by talking about union with each other. They had once—for a brief moment in history—been united before. For 16 years after ...