Long lost palace and death site of Moctezuma II discovered in Mexico The remains of an Aztec palace where emperor Moctezuma II was held captive by the Spanish and killed in 1520 has been discovered in Mexico City.  Historical records say that the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes took Moctezuma II (also known as Moctezuma Xocoyotzin, sometimes also …

30,000-year-old stone tools discovered in Mexican Cave suggest humans reached America 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 report online July 22 in Nature. That’s more than 10,000 years before humans are generally thought to …

Ancient Aztec palace unearthed in Mexico City The historic Nacional Monte de Piedad building in Mexico City appears to cover much more than low-interest pawn loans to those in need. As it turns out, the building actually stands on the remains of an Aztec palace. According to USA Today, the discovery occurred during an inspection …

11,000-year-old mine in the underwater cave found by archaeologists Paleoindian ochre mining has been found by divers in three underwater caves near Akumal, on the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. From the Maya era, the cave’s were a source of mineral and pigment but they were long preceded by mining activity in this …

Grisly Child Sacrifice Found at Foot of Ancient Aztec Temple Archaeologists discovered the site of children’s sacrifice at the foot of an ancient temple in a ruined Aztec city, located at the foot of the ancient Templo Mayor temple in the center of the Aztec city of Tenochтιтlan. It is believed that the young child …

Mask of the red queen A.D 670 Mexico One of the richest known burials of the Mayan women monarch is the funeral ᴀssemblage of Palenque’s Lady Tz’akbu Ajaw, nicknamed the Red Queen as it was discovered to be covered in cinnabar. Her sarcophagus was in Temple XIII, next to the Temple of the Inscriptions, where her …

This is one of the “Cracked Eggs” you may encounter in the Bisti De Na Zin Wilderness Area. In northern New Mexico, the Bisti Badlands are more like a dreamscape than a scenery. Totem poles of sandstone rocks, or hoodoos, reach haphazardly into the brilliant blue sky, some so crooked that it’s amazing that even …

Mexico: 3,000-year-old Mayan ceremonial complex discovered in Tabasco In the latest breakthrough discovery of lost civilization, researchers have found the largest and the oldest Mayan site through a unique laser technology called lidar. Using the aerial remote-sensing method, researchers at the University of Arizona found a colossal rectangular elevated platform that was built between 1000 …

Archaeologists Discover More Than 200-Year-Old Shipwreck In Mexico’s Caribbean. QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO— BBC reports that an eight-foot cannon, anchor, and pig-iron ingots thought to have been used as a ship’s ballast were spotted by a fisherman in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of southern Mexico. The wreckage rests in shallow waters and rough ocean currents …