Located within the sprawling Chapultepec Forest, the Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology) showcases artifacts from Mexico's pre-Columbian era, dating from about 100 B.C. to ...

When people hear about human sacrifice in ancient Mexico, the Aztecs and their dramatic rituals usually steal the show. Giant ...

Archaeologists in El Salvador exhumed human remains believed to be nearly 3,000 years old on Tuesday, the Ministry of Culture ...

Discover who truly ruled ancient Mesoamerica! The Mayans pioneered impressive cities and advanced astronomy around 2000 BCE, ...

At the southern edge of Mexico City, where traffic and buildings surround what remains of an ancient lake landscape, narrow ...

From a buried stone giant unearthed by a farmworker in 1850s Veracruz to the towering jungle pyramids of El Mirador, this is the story of the civilizations that shaped Mesoamerica long before the ...

But he won’t be winning any awards—he died more than 1,000 years ago in the Maya empire that once flourished in Mesoamerica.

American food didn’t begin in diners or drive-thrus—it began in Indigenous fields that quietly handed the world some of its ...

In a recent statement, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) reported the discovery of a lost Maya city hidden deep within the Calakmul Biosphere Reserv ...

One of the two volcanoes that formed Ometepe Island looms over Nicaragua’s Lake Cocibolca—also known as Lake Nicaragua. The island was at the center of a cultural region known to scholars as Greater ...

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Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, part of the Mesoamerican region, is the arid or semi-arid zone with the richest biodiversity in all of North America. Consisting of three components, Zapotitlán-Cuicatlán, ...