A newly discovered temple in the Bolivian Andes once served as ceremonial crossroads where llama caravans carrying ...

Evidence buried in gypsum dunes suggests humans arrived far earlier than expected. Radiocarbon dates from three materials ...

From jaguars to shooting stars, these rare and meaningful Náhuatl names are steeped in centuries of culture, cosmic symbolism ...

Mexico's Pacific coast, on the Ring of Fire, is the region with the most earthquakes and volcanoes in the world.. So when Mexican architect Augusto H. Álvarez was commissioned to design the famous ...

Lake Texcoco and Valley of Mexico. Image via Openverse. The drought-induced receding of Lake Texcoco in Mexico has revealed numerous Aztec sacrificial offerings that were once submerged beneath its ...

In the diptych “Al Otro Lado de Texcoco,” for example, a gleaming lake peeks through dense clusters of cacti. Nested at the base of the volcano La Malinche, the body of water greeted the Aztecs when ...

When they founded Tenochtitlan in the 14th century, they constructed the city on an island in Lake Texcoco and built a system of canals and causeways to connect it to the mainland. ... Planning a Trip ...

Velasco unites 19th-century romanticism, ancient romantic myth, ... founded in 1325 in the middle of lake Texcoco and the forerunner of Mexico City; ...

The Uncomfortable Giant harvested from a lake in Peru, now sits in Mexico City, a sinking city built on top of Lake Texcoco. (Arturo Arrieta/Courtesy LIGA) The creature’s tail erupts from the ...

Mexico celebrates the registration of Lake Texcoco as its first Ecohydrology Demonstration Site by UNESCO, a designation approved by the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the ...

According to archaeologists, this artificial waterway connected to Lake Texcoco and functioned as a sort of aquatic highway for small boats. María de Lourdes López Camacho, an INAH researcher and ...