Many of Mexico’s buildings damaged by recent earthquakes were historic churches
The 16th-century Nuestro Señora de los Remedios in Choluloa, Puebla, Mexico lost two of its domes (2009 photo above by Gerardo Noriega is...
“We found there were 136,000 skulls”
The Aztec empire extended across much of what today is the Valley of Mexico from 1428 to the Spanish Conquest in 1521. When the...
Play ball!—in downtown Mexico City
Ballcourts were common across Mesoamerica for nearly 3,000 years, with subsequent cultures revising and adapting the court and the game’s...
Pitz: a Classical Mayan game is reinvigorated in modern Mexico
A Classic Mayan game is being re-claimed in modern Mexico!
Democracy in the Western Hemisphere? The Mesoamerican city of Tlaxcallan
The ancient city of Athens, Greece is considered to be the birthplace of democracy. Athenian Democracy, as it is now referred to by...
Add Ichkabal to your itinerary in southern Quintana Roo!
The Mexican state of Quintana Roo lines the western coast of the Yucatan peninsula bordering the Caribbean Sea. The region holds some of...
The dismal effects of European disease on the Aztecs
It has long been recognized that one of the most disastrous results of European contact with societies in the Western Hemisphere was the...
Radiocarbon dating the Maya—multiple waves of social instability, warfare and political crises
The general trajectory of the succession of Mayan civilizations has long been understood by archaeologists. But new refined analysis of...
The Mirador Basin Project using new technology to reveal a vast highway network
The dense jungle that covers much of the former Mayan territory has long hindered research into that ancient society. Recently,...
“Less than a dozen painted fig bark sheets ripped from an ancient astronomy manuscript”
Found in 1965 by looters and purchased by a former Mexican Cabinet member, this “book” was long thought to have been a forgery. Now,...