If you want to see what history looks like through Mayan eyes, or if you’ve ever wondered what an Aztec zombie’s life was like, then you’ve got to come to the Museum of Latin American Art next weekend ...

An extremely important 1-ton sculpture, sometimes referred to by archaeologists as an “Earth Monster” or Monument 9, was repatriated to Mexico from a private collection in Colorado in May 2023, ...

After the Aztec conquest, Cortés marched south and passed through a Maya lake-city where a stranded Spanish horse was later remembered as a god—an eerie prelude to the final subjugation of the last ...

Celebrations of Día de los Muertos, which can be traced back to Mayan and Aztec times, have one thing in common - remembering and honoring the dead. Building an altar, often referred to as an ofrenda, ...

A major breakthrough in Maya archaeology has emerged from Caracol, Belize, where the University of Houston team uncovered the tomb of Te K'ab Chaak—Caracol’s first known ruler. Buried with elaborate ...