Latin America (LATAM) has witnessed many of the world's most important ancient cultures. From the Mayas to the Incas, countless cultures emerged, leaving us with both the physical and cultural legacies where archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians seek to decipher the history of our ancestors. Computing plays an important role in building tools that allow specialists to research cultural legacies. In this article, we present some of the recent efforts to build state-of-the-art computational technology to preserve and conserve cultural heritage in LATAM. We describe how the analysis of symmetries in shapes could help to restore damaged archaeological objects in Peru, and present recent efforts to apply deep learning and data-driven methods to assist in digitizing pre-Columbian objects.