Five years ago, archaeologists announced they had discovered a massive Maya structure in southeastern Mexico. Built between ...

In a new book, Paul Gillingham tells the story of a nation that has thrived because of its diversity, not in spite of it.

Aside from overseeing Mexico’s archaeological sites and museums, the institute safeguards the country’s cultural heritage, ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with ...

Before there were the Olmecs, what was life like in early Mexico, how did people live and what do we know about their lives ...

MEXICO CITY – Amid the constant blare of car horns in southern Mexico City, it’s hard to imagine that Cuicuilco was once the heart of a thriving ancient civilization. Yet atop its circular pyramid, ...

Three thousand years ago, in what is now southern Mexico, Olmec art and culture flourished. No written documents survive, but the exceptional beauty and technical brilliance of the sculpture and its ...

It's constantly used by people for all of these different reasons throughout history, that is the story of shifting borders, ...