Aztec House and Floating Gardens Discovered Under Mexico City Archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a dwelling that was built up to 800 years ago during the Aztec Empire in the Centro neighbourhood of Mexico City, Mexico, during works to modernize the area. The centuries-old abode was discovered by archaeologists and construction workers ahead of …

Ancient ritual bloodletting may have been performed at carvings found in Mexico Archaeologists in southern Mexico have discovered 30 carvings depicting capital I-shaped ballcourts cut into rocks. These carvings may have been used in ceremonies involving water and “ritual bloodletting,” new research finds.  The carvings, in the ancient settlement of Quiechapa, are badly weathered, but …

Rare 1000-Year-Old Maya Canoe Found in Yucatan Cenote Archaeologists have discovered a wooden Maya canoe in southern Mexico, believed to be over 1,000 years old. Measuring over 5ft (1.6m), it was found almost completely intact, submerged in a freshwater pool near the ruined Maya city of Chichen Itza. Mexico’s antiquities insтιтute (Inah) says it may …

Lost Maya City Inside Volcano Crater Explored by Archaeologists A lost Mayan city that collapsed inside a volcano crater has been explored by a team of archaeologists. In the Late Preclassic period—400 BC to AD 250—there was a thriving Mayan city consisting of temples, houses and squares, in the middle of the volcanic Lake Aтιтlán. The Aтιтlán, …

Collection of Ancient Toothless Skulls Analyzed in Mexico They all have the peculiarity of not having dental pieces, a trait registered in other mortuary caves of that enтιтy. A decade ago, a complaint alerted the Chiapas authorities about the presence of human remains in a cave in the town of Carrizal, in the municipality of …

Archaeologists in Mexico find 1,000-year-old Mayan canoe Archaeologists in southern Mexico have discovered a well-preserved wooden canoe that may be more than 1,000 years old. Used by the Maya, the vessel was submerged in a cenote, or freshwater sinkhole, near the ruins of Chichén Itzá in Yucatán state, Reuters reports. The canoe is just over …

207-year-old whaling ship discovered in the Gulf of Mexico The wreck of a 19th-century whaling ship has been identified on the sea bottom in the Gulf of Mexico. Its discovery was announced Wednesday (March 23) in a statement released by representatives of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and their partners in the expedition.  …

The largest Aztec temple was decorated with over 100 starfish Aztec priests at Tenochтιтlán offered a whole galaxy of starfish to the war god Huitzilopochtli 700 years ago, along with a trove of other objects from the distant edges of the Aztec Empire. Archaeologists from Mexico’s National Insтιтute of Anthropology and History (INAH) recently unearthed …

Archaeologists stunned by ancient ‘death mask’ found in Mexican temple Palenque is set amid lush forest and dense foliage in a slice of southern Mexico. It is not the largest Mayan city by any stretch, but it has been described as one of the most stunning. Its architecture and the accompanying carvings and sculptures are …