Yet in many ways it's the best way to soak up Mexico City, a fast-changing cultural hotspot sitting on the bed of an ancient lake some 2,200 meters (7,200 ft) above sea level, in a valley ringed ...

Ancestral floating gardens are visible next to new soccer fields on Xochimilco Lake in Mexico City, Oct. 20 ... lunar goddess — but it did appear in ancient Mesoamerican documents.

Between 2017 and 2018, a team of researchers released then tracked 18 captive-bred axolotls in the ancient lake south of Mexico City, and in a nearby artificial wetland, to see how they would fare ...

the Calmécac roof ornaments have become one of the most distinctive motifs of ancient Mexico. Excavation at the Calmécac proved difficult. Eighteen feet beneath the city, the site continually ...

When the Spaniards arrived, they drained the waters, building Mexico City on top of that. Only Lake Xochimilco remained — the last remaining home of the axolotl. The axolotl can breathe in four ...

“This great system (chinampas) is all that’s left from the lake city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, so I always tell our visitors that Xochimilco is a living archeological zone,” Cruz said.

"This great system [chinampas] is all that's left from the lake city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, so I always tell our visitors that Xochimilco is a living archaeological zone," Cruz said. "If we ...

“This great system (chinampas) is all that’s left from the lake city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, so I always tell our visitors that Xochimilco is a living archeological zone,” Cruz said.

Ancient Deity, Pet and Endangered Species ... “This great system (chinampas) is all that’s left from the lake city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, so I always tell our visitors that Xochimilco ...