Excavation of a council house at the major Lowland Maya center of Ucanal, Guatemala, reveals how the public gained some ...

Researchers decoded Teotihuacan symbols as an early Uto-Aztecan writing system, possibly linked to Nahuatl speakers and reshaping theories about the city’s people.

An Egyptian tour guide was arrested after allegedly sketching a stick figure onto the side of the 4,000-year-old Pyramid of Unas while leading a group of tourists. Video of the incident, which ...

When Aztec emissaries arrived in 1520 to Tzintzuntzan, the capital of the Tarascan Kingdom in what is now the Mexican state of Michoacán, they carried a warning from the Aztec emperor, Cuauhtémoc.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once vilified, La Malinche, seen in the statue "Monumento al Mestizaje" at Parque Xicotencatl in Mexico City, is now being recast ...

Once vilified, La Malinche, seen in the statue "Monumento al Mestizaje" at Parque Xicotencatl in Mexico City, is now being recast in a new light. For centuries she was vilified, her name — Malinche — ...

It was the evening after the winter solstice at Aztec Ruins National Monument in northwest New Mexico, near the town of Aztec. Although we were a day late per the solar calendar, the park service ...

Archaeological excavations outside the ancient city of Megiddo shed light on the area's Bronze Age alcohol production and a potential folk cult. Reading time 3 minutes Archaeologists in Israel have ...

Beneath the Church of Our Lady of Remedies in Mexico lies the world’s largest pyramid by volume, the Great Pyramid of Cholula. Built over centuries and layered with temples, it predates the Aztecs and ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza—the largest of Egypt’s pyramids—consists of about 2.3 million limestone blocks. The smallest of these weigh two tons, while the largest weigh over 60. History says laborers ...