From agriculture to mathematics, Mesoamerica gave the world countless innovations. This article explores how the ancient ...

The scorpion-shaped mound is strategically placed in the center of the largest preserved prehistoric irrigation system in ...

The Mayan Languages Preservation and Digitization Project promotes tools designed by and for Indigenous communities, like online glossaries and special phone keyboards Aurora Martínez - Staff ...

In a recent study by Dr. Heather McKillop and Dr. E. Cory Sills, a complete Late Classic Maya residential compound discovered ...

According to a Live Science report, James Neely of the University of Texas at Austin and his colleagues suggest that country ...

A 205-foot-long, scorpion-shaped mound in Mexico likely helped Mesoamericans mark the summer and winter solstices, a new ...

A Maya Love for ChocolateThese paintings from the ancient Maya city of Calakmul depict the preparation and drinking of cacao. When did humans first start cultivating chocolate? It's not just a candy ...

Ten Latinamerican countries led by Mexico and Colombia agreed in Santo Domingo the building of a mega oil refinery which will ensure energy supply to the region at preferential prices. The leaders of ...

White-lipped peccaries, the pig-like mammals that range from Mexico to Argentina, are in “precipitous decline” in their Mesoamerican range, according to a new study. Their numbers in this region may ...

In New York’s Battery Park last Friday night, Greta Thunberg rightly said, “This is an emergency. Our house is on fire.” She continued, “This Monday, world leaders are going to be gathered here in New ...

It looks as though the next instalment in Ubisoft's ongoing saga of strife and conquest will take place in Baghdad, not Mesoamerica as was originally rumoured. The Assassin's Creed saga began in the ...

Wrapped inside a fresh or dried corn husk is a soft maíz cake known intimately across the Americas as tamales. A closer look beneath the husk reveals centuries of history beheld by generations of ...