The woman, carved in pale stone, wears a peaked headdress, circular earrings and the wide hip belt and kneepads of an ancient Mesoamerican athlete. Her expression is fierce, her pose triumphant.

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex geopolitics ...

Nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan city with ‘remarkable’ architecture unearthed in Guatemala - Ancient city was likely one of most important ceremonial centres of Mayan civilisation ...

Thirty miles northeast of Mexico City, in the ancient Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacán, is a huge monument known as the “Pyramid of the Moon.” Recently, a team of archaeoastronomers proposed ...

Montezuma was one of the most influential figures in Aztec history, yet there’s a lot we don’t know about him. We know that he reigned from 1502 until 1520 and that he famously expanded the Aztec ...

The Mesoamerican Influences Behind Namor From ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ The sequel to the 2018 Marvel blockbuster features a Maya-inspired antihero played by Mexican actor Tenoch Huerta ...

[ Related: Ancient Mayan human sacrifices involved twins. A kind of ‘nostalgia’ Archeologists believe that Tikal’s collective memory of this Teotihuacan coup was likely pretty complicated .

Ancient civilizations in much of Mexico and Central America were making different grades of rubber 3,000 years before Charles Goodyear "stabilized" the stuff in the mid-19th century, new research ...

Aztec and Maya civilizations are household names – but it’s the Olmecs who are the ‘mother culture’ of ancient Mesoamerica by: Karl Taube University of California, Riverside via The ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and grim contents may hold the key to unraveling the complex geopolitics ...

Nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan city with ‘remarkable’ architecture unearthed in Guatemala. Ancient city was likely one of most important ceremonial centres of Mayan civilisation ...