Gallery, INAH, National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. Templo Mayor was the ceremonial and spiritual core of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Mexica Empire—better known as the Aztecs. Now, centuries ...

Traditionally, excavations deep in the jungles of Mexico, Central, and South America are difficult at best and dangerous at ...

Mexican pyramids are a key feature of ancient Mesoamerican architecture. While they share some similarities with Egyptian ...

“Everyone knows what happened to the Aztec civilization after the Spanish arrived,” Houston said. “Our findings show evidence that that’s a tale as old as time. These powers of central Mexico reached ...

Melanistic (black) Jaguars are common and are often called black panthers. Jaguar was a powerful motif in the Mayan and Aztec civilisations. Lion Vulnerable Grasslands, savannas, dense scrub, and open ...

I have given them an Indian yet modern touch. ‘Hanumanji & Maya’ is about mythology and also about how we hold on to things in our lives. I want each artwork to act like a mirror, urging viewers to ...

An “Alux,” a duende-like creature of Maya mythology. (Zazil Tunich) In some parts of Mexico, duendes live in a house’s walls. Young unkempt children are warned that duendes like to collect ...

cover all that and then some. The irony of the CBS story is that 1) the Maya/Teotihuacan never encountered Europeans (their eventual successors, the Aztec, wouldn’t meet Cortez and Co. until 700 ...