Controversial cave discoveries suggest humans reached the Americas much earlier than thought Stone tools unearthed in a cave in Mexico indicate that humans could have lived in the area as early as about 33,000 years ago, researchers reported. That’s more than 10,000 years before humans are generally thought to have settled North America. This controversial discovery …

Giant Face of Ucanha: Huge Sculpted Mayan Mask Found in Mexico A giant Mayan mask as tall as a person has been revealed at an archaeological site in the Mexican state of Yucatán.  The mask, which depicts the face of an unknown deity or elite person, was sculpted from the building material stucco and dates …

Hundreds of Artifacts Returned to Mexico by Arizona Homeland Security Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) returned 277 pre-Columbian artefacts to Mexican officials Tuesday during a repatriation ceremony in the Mexican Consulate in Nogales. The pieces were recovered after two separate investigations by HSI special agents ᴀssigned to Phoenix and Nogales, Arizona. Scott Brown, special agent in …

World’s biggest pyramid isn’t in Egypt – it’s hidden under a hill in Mexico While Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza is by far the most talked-about pyramid in the world, it isn’t the biggest by a long sH๏τ. That тιтle goes to the Great Pyramid of Cholula – an ancient Aztec temple in Puebla, Mexico …

The secret cave lies hidden below the enormous ‘Moon Pyramid’ An underground cave hidden under a Mexican pyramid provides clues about Teotihuacan’s urban architecture, one of the oldest and most vibrant cities of ancient times. Located about 80 kilometres outside present-day Mexico City, Teotihuacan peaked long before the Aztecs in AD 300-650. Three monumental pyramids …

Geologists Map Secret Tunnel And Chamber Found Beneath Aztec Pyramid “Teotihuacan, translated from the Aztec language as “birthplace of the gods,” or “a place where gods were born,” was a very important religious and cultural center during the Aztec empire. Less than a decade ago, archaeologists uncovered an almost 60-foot Vertical shaft under the Avenue of …

The Rome of America: What Lies Under Teotihuacan? – The Real City of the Gods It was one of the first large cities in the Western Hemisphere, the Huge. And its origins are a mystery.  About a thousand years before the gradual arrival in central Mexico of the Nahuatl-speaking Aztec, it was built by hand. …

Golden Eagle Sculpture Unearthed in Aztec Temple According to a statement released by Mexico’s National Insтιтute of Anthropology and History (INAH), archaeologists led by Rodolfo Aguilar Tapia have uncovered a bas-relief sculpture of a golden eagle in the floor of the Aztec chapel dedicated to Huitzilopochtli at the Templo Mayor. The well-preserved floor surface was …

Experts find 2,000 ruin sites near the Maya train route project in Mexico Archaeologists in Mexico have provided a study from specialists that cites have more than 2,000 pre-Hispanic ruins or clusters of artifacts along the planned path of the president’s controversial “Maya Train” project on the Yucatan peninsula. The discovery of sites using LiDAR elevation mapping …