Why was there no Middle Ages in Mexico? It turns out the answer is a really simple one, as our expert historian explains.

Arlen and Diane Chase unearthed the tomb of Te K’ab Chaak, the first king of the ancient Maya city of Caracol, located in ...

Some believe that the sleepy mountain town of Tepoztlán harbors a great spiritual power — and who are we to disagree?

Mesoamerican cultures shaped the history of Central America through remarkable achievements in architecture, science, and society. Among the most influential were the Maya, who thrived in present-day ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered the 1,700-year-old tomb of the earliest known ruler of the ancient Maya city of Caracol. The ...

Te K'ab Chaak was a wealthy warrior king who rose to power in 331 C.E. His burial is the first royal tomb found in the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the 1,600-year-old tomb of Caracol’s first Maya ruler in Belize.

The solstices were major turning points for our observant ancestors. They closely tracked the movement of the sun, and famously built many ancient monuments — like Stonehenge and some Mesoamerican ...

The encyclopedia contains both longer essays on topics such as art and architecture, codices, social life and festivals, gods and goddesses, the Mesoamerican ball game, the Maya calendar, funerary ...

Introduction History is not simply the story of what happened mdash;it is the memory of how power was used, values encoded, ...

Aeroméxico increases flights from Austin to Mexico City from June 26 to August 18, offering a more comfortable travel ...