The Aztec Empire was one of the most dominant forces the world had ever seen, but it would fall from grace in a span of two ...

Learn about the abandoned Zapotec city of Guiengola in Oaxaca, Mexico, featuring a society based on communal work that would ...

Archeologists are reconstructing the history of the ancient megacity of Teotihuacán using the nearly 2,000-year-old remains ...

A writer who sets out on a wellness journey to a Mexican sweat lodge instead uncovers the importance of trusting—not just ...

It wasn't until 1978 that the temple dedicated to the Aztec gods Huitzilopochtli and Tláloc (gods of war and water) was unearthed in the heart of Mexico City. Today, the area remains an active ...

"It's like a city frozen in time," said archaeologist Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of Canada's McGill University.

Construction Worker Stumbles on a Gigantic Gold Bar Under a Street, Was Left Behind by a Fleeing Spanish Invader In 2020, ...

It is overlooked from a cloud-forested peak by El Tepozteco, a hilltop Aztec temple dedicated to the god of pulque (the ... around four hours’ drive north of Mexico City. This sleepy village was given ...

In 1785, a Spanish official named Don Diego Ruiz was looking for illegal tobacco plantations in the Papantla region of Mexico (then called New Spain), near the modern-day city of Veracruz, when he ...

From witnessing active volcanoes and getting involved in community tourism to exploring stone cities that have stood for ...

Mexico’s Maya and Aztec pyramids deserve a spot high on your travel list ... While visitors are no longer allowed to climb the steps or access the Temple of Kukulcán at the top of the pyramid, they ...

Like many churches in Yucatán, it was built on top of a Mayan temple ... Teotihuacan near Mexico City and is dedicated to Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent central to Aztec culture and theology.