Restoring an ancient lake from the rubble of an unfinished airport in Mexico City. Plans for Mexico's $1 billion Lake Texcoco Ecological Park reflect a new paradigm in urban design.

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 ...

Tenochtitlán was an Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521. Built on an island on Lake Texcoco, it had a system of canals and causeways that supplied the hundreds of thousands of ...

Mexico-Tenochtitlán, once an unassuming settlement in the middle of Lake Texcoco, is now a bustling metropolis. It is the capital of an empire ruling over, and receiving tribute from, more than ...

In Mexico City, the rate of subsidence is alarming, with some areas sinking at a rate of up to 20 inches per year. The city’s foundation, built on the ancient lakebed of Lake Texcoco, is ...

Before the Spanish conquest in 1521, Mexico City, then called Tenochtitlán, was built on two small islands inside Lake Texcoco. The Aztecs built canals and floating farms called chinampas to feed ...

At the center of the emerging park is Lake Texcoco, a historic reservoir that’s largely drained — but if replenished could provide some relief from the city’s water crisis.

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 ...

As drought hits a lake in central Mexico, ancient artifacts are being revealed after they sank centuries ago. A boat, human bones were found Massive ancient boat found off coast of Mexico island.