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In Mexico, traditionally women did not inherit chinampas, island farms first built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago ...

The National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico organizes monthly tours to share the country's rich cultural ...

Among the many mysteries surrounding the ancient Mexican metropolis of Teotihuacan, one has been especially hard to crack: how did its residents use the many signs and symbols found on its murals and ...

The Yucatán Peninsula is a land where ancient history and raw geology meet. Beneath its flat limestone plains lie endless caves, underground rivers, and cenotes—natural wells that sustained the Maya ...

In Guatemala, Lake Atitlan contains a fascinating ancient Maya settlement which has now been completely submerged, but was ...

Amid the constant blare of car horns in southern Mexico City, it’s hard to imagine that Cuicuilco was once the heart of a thriving ancient civilization.

Deep beneath Mexico’s jungles, divers have uncovered the world’s longest submerged cave — and inside lie the haunting remains of the ancient Maya. Bones, artifacts, and Ice Age creatures are rewriting ...

After careful analysis, Hansen and colleague Christophe Helmke believe they may finally have the answer—and the evidence has ...

Even more exciting, they suggest that this writing records an early version of the Uto-Aztecan language family—a group of ...

For centuries, seekers of lost civilizations have gazed across the Atlantic in search of Atlantis, the mysterious land described by Plato as an advanced society destroyed in a great cataclysm. Egypt, ...

When most of us think about the history of money, we imagine a simple timeline: people bartered goods, then invented coins, then paper money, and later moved on to cards and digital payments. But new ...