For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

The flight from Paris to the island of Réunion, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean, takes 11 hours, skirting the smoldering crater of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano before landing ...

Tenochtitlan, a metropolis built in the middle of a lake, with floating islands supported by piles. The date: November 1519.

A children's book about a famed family of Mexican professional wrestlers written by former Brownsville educator and journalist Kevin Garcia has risen to the top (currently No. 3) of the Amazon.com MX ...

In Grandin’s telling, the U.S. is the larger minotaur. “America, América”’ limns the intrigues and betrayals Latin America countenanced as the Civil War roiled and emancipations erupted. Native people ...

The study sheds new light on the economic networks, rituals and political influence of the Mexica (Aztec) Empire. Published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study ...

The art of Teotihuacans was the most developed among the classic civilizations of Mexico ... of the city towards 650 A.D., the ruins were imbued with legend. The Aztec name of Teotihuacán means "the ...

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Ancient civilizations in much of Mexico and Central ... new research suggests. The Aztec, Olmec, and Maya of Mesoamerica are known to have made rubber using natural latex—a milky, sap-like ...

PHOTOGRAPH BY ALAMY/ACI Ahuitzotl, probably the greatest of all the Aztec rulers, came to power next. He expanded the empire’s borders as far as present-day Guatemala, coming into contact with ...

He tells Empire Online (via SFFGazette.com), "It really does feel that it’s welcoming people to really celebrate the original film. It has that wonder and awe, while not being scared to re ...