Mexico Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have recovered as many as 2,550 wooden objects from the Templo Mayor in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan in Mexico City. The
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Maize has always been the most important food crop in the Maya. According to the ancient creation myth of the Maya people, the gods
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While excavating on a construction site of what will become an industrial park near Merida, on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula archaeologists have uncovered the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - INAH researchers have analyzed approximately 150 toothless skulls and other bones unearthed a decade ago in southeastern Mexico’s Comalapa Cave, in the town
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new DNA study along with excavations in Belize has revealed early Maya trace their roots to previously unknown ancient immigrants carrying maize
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - After many years of hard, dedicated work, scientists have finally deciphered the longest Zapotec text of its kind known to exist in the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Location, location, location—it's the first rule of real estate. For a long time, it's been widely assumed that being close to resources drives
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of international researchers led by the University of Arizona reported last year that they had uncovered the largest and oldest Maya
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - What makes the Tarascans an intriguing pre-Columbian civilization? The Tarascans, well-known for their outstanding musical and artistic abilities, are first of all, famous for
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Before being destroyed and abandoned in 50 B.C. by a volcanic eruption, Cuicuilco was an important ancient site on the southern shore of Lake
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek -AncientPages.com - An unexpected archaeological discovery sheds new light on the arrival of the first people in North America. Scientists suggest people reached North America more
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Edzná is an ancient place populated in 400 BC and abandoned c. 1500 AD. It is a Maya archaeological site in the north of the Mexican state of Campeche.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - "Chac Mool" (chacmool, or chaacmol) is one of Mexico's most famous Pre-Columbian statues. Chac-Mool altars are generally found at the entrance to Toltec temples
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A magnificent, huge golden eagle bas relief has been discovered at Tenochtitlan, the ancient capital of the Aztec Empire. On November 8, 1519,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Not all treasures of Mexico can be found on the surface of this very old country, rich in culture, traditions, and history that
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Atlantean statues of Tula are four anthropomorphic characters representing ancient warriors who followed a Mesoamerican god king Quetzalcoatl, a feathered serpent. Quetzalcoatl represented
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The shipwreck that in the 1850’s carried Mayan people into slavery has been identified by archaeologists of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The city of Teotihuacán in Mexico remains as intriguing as mysterious. There is still so much we do not know about Teotihuacán, a
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the earliest civilizations that developed under the Olmec influence is represented by an unknown complex of ruins located near Mexico City
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have once again used LIDAR technology with success. Using light detection and ranging technology scientists have located the world's oldest and largest
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It all started in 2008 when archaeologists excavated a fascinating ancient archaeological site Guachimontones (‘Los Guachimontones’) is located just outside the modest little
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Five centuries after Charles I of Spain authorized the transport of the first African slaves to the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the ancestry
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Why the Aztecs migrated to the Mexican Valley can be debated, but once they reached the place it didn’t take long before they
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists are investigating a new skeleton discovered in the underwater Chan Hol caves at Tulum, Mexico. Examination of a skull belonging to a
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com - Ancient people often believed that dreams or omens could foretell the future. Such signs were regarded as messages from the gods and could
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered a large palace at the Mayan city of Kulubá in Yucatán. According to the first reports, it seems the structure
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
AncientPages.com - Day of the Dead might sound like a solemn affair, but Mexico’s famous holiday is actually a lively commemoration of the departed. The nationwide festivities, which include a massive
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 of this series we discussed how one man gave us extraordinary information about ancient giants in Mexico. According to his own
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In this article, we will not waste time attempting to prove giants existed in the past. We have covered the topic in several
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the three largest and most important Mayan city-states, next to Tikal (Guatemala) and Palenque, was Calakmul ("City of the Two Adjacent Pyramids").
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Xipe Totec was an Aztec god worshiped by people across what is now central and western Mexico and the Gulf coast. It was a
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The representation of the Sacred Mountain of the Mayas, is located only ten kilometers from a village Ocosingo in Chiapas between the famous Palenque
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There is a strange story about Gil Pérez, a 16th-century soldier and guard. Some historians have questioned the accuracy of this strange story
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists has uncovered evidence indicating that Mayan elites lived in the pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacán, located northeast of Mexico City more than 1,000 kilometers
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A mask believed to depict the Mayan ruler Pakal in his old age is among several archaeological treasures discovered during conservation work in the Mayan city
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Ancient History Facts
A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - This Mexican map is a property plan illustrating the foundation of two towns in the region of Tlaxcala, Mexico. It was created 50 years after
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Standing in central Mexico, the mysterious Huapalcalco pyramid remains an unsolved ancient mystery. Not only is it Mexico’s smallest pyramid, but it’s also unknown
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Tuxtla statuette is a strange ancient artifact left by a culture we still know very little about. Who was this bullet-shaped being with
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Exactly today but 493 years ago, on February 28, 1525, the last ruler of the Aztecs, was executed by the conquistadors of Hernán Cortés.
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Using LIDAR (light detection and ranging) technology researchers have made an astonishing discovery that can re-write history of Mexico. Hidden in the heartland of Mexico, scientists have
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Ancient Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient ‘smiling faces’ are small figurines of reddish clay, associated with ancient cultures of Maya and Aztec. Usually these ceramic sculptures were solid or
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Most important sacred temple complex of the Aztecs - the Main Temple (in Spanish: Templo Mayor) was built in the center of the Aztec capital
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