Follow a team of scientists exploring royal tombs beneath the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacán. After decades of research, these imperial burial chambers may reveal clues about the long-lost ...

An ancient temple hidden right under archaeologists’ noses at Tikal, one of the world’s most famous Maya sites, hints at a tantalizing connection between the Guatemalan city and Teotihuacan, a ...

Archaeologists David Carballo and Rebecca Storey examine the ancient bones found at Teotihuacán to find out where the Teotihuacán’s ordinary citizens came from. The teeth reveal that the ancient ...

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ONE AFTERNOON last December Arnd Adje Both, a researcher at Huddersfield University, in Britain, stood on top of the Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacan, in Mexico, and blew into a conch-shell trumpet, ...

In the jungles of northern Guatemala, archaeologists brushed away centuries of soil to uncover a small altar that shouldn’t have been there. It stood no taller than a toddler, its four painted faces ...

Earlier this month, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History announced new discoveries made by archaeologists working at the site of Teotihuacan, located outside of Mexico City.

For centuries, researchers have studied Teotihuacán's towering pyramids, yet much about its culture and origins remains an archaeological mystery. Just outside Mexico City lies another metropolis, ...

An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the interaction ...

Human and animal sacrifice were part of the culture in ancient Teotihuacan, just outside modern Mexico City. But so were beautiful murals, sculptures and ceramics — artifacts that form the arresting ...

More than two millennia ago, Teotihuacan was a thriving metropolis in central Mexico with up to 125,000 inhabitants. The city had gigantic pyramids and was a cultural center in Mesoamerica at the time ...

View post: There’s a Whopping 8 College Football Bowl Games Saturday. Here’s the Schedule After five years of silence, the Pyramid of the Moon is echoing once again with the footsteps of explorers. On ...