Intact Ball Game Carving Discovered at Chichen Itza *** Presents two ball players in the center; It has a diameter of 32.5 centimeters, 9.5 centimeters thick, and 40 kilograms in weight. *** It must have been attached to an arch that served as access to the Casa Colorada architectural complex  In the Archaeological Zone of …

83 ancient Mexican artifacts returned from Italy, Germany, France The National Insтιтute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has announced the return of 40 historical artifacts from Italy, as well as another 40 from Germany and three from France. Some of the artifacts are nearly 1,700 years old. The artifacts arrived safely back in Mexico thanks …

Burial Chamber Uncovered at Maya Site of Palenque The discovery of a burial chamber in the archaeological zone of Palenque with a primary burial, composed of a human skeleton, and a secondary burial, an offering made up of three plates and a niche with various green stone figures, was reported by archaeologists from the National …

Cemetery Found in Mexico City Reflects Changing Burial Customs INAH experts recovered the skeletal remains of 21 individuals during the construction of the so-called “Pavellón Escénico“, in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City. A cemetery from the early viceregal period (1521-1620 AD) was found in the area where the Chapultepec Forest Garden and “Pabellón Escénico” (Scenic Pavilion) …

Archaeologists in northern Mexico shed new light on ancient Huastec burial and construction practices Recent excavations at a site in the state of Tamaulipas included analysis of large earthen mounds that were used for burials and everyday activities. Archaeologists in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, have identified remnants of a human settlement active more …

Lasers reveal sites used as the Americas’ oldest known star calendars Olmec and Maya people living along Mexico’s Gulf Coast as early as 3,100 years ago built star-aligned ceremonial centers to track important days of a 260-day calendar, a new study finds. The oldest written evidence of this calendar, found on painted plaster mural fragments from …

Ice Age Hunting Camp Identified in Mexico This story begins anywhere from 4,000 to 17,000 years ago, when woolly mammoths roamed the Earth. It picks up in Mexico in the mid-1950s, when the remains of a couple of those mammoths — and stone tools with traces of human use — were found in the central …

Ceremonial cave site from Postclassic Maya period discovered in Yucatán Peninsula Archaeologists have discovered a ceremonial cave site in Chemuyil on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, that dates from the Postclassic Maya period. As is known during the pre-Hispanic era diverse cultures existed throughout the territory of Mexican, but it was the Maya one of the …

Did the Aztecs Use Mountains to Track the Sun? Without clocks or modern tools, ancient Mexicans watched the sun to maintain a farming calendar that precisely tracked seasons and even adjusted for leap years. Before the Spanish arrival in 1519, the Basin of Mexico’s agricultural system fed a population that was extraordinarily large for the …