The Aztec, Olmec, and Maya of Mesoamerica are known to have made rubber using natural latex—a milky, sap-like fluid found in some plants. Mesoamerica extends roughly from central Mexico to ...

National Museum of Art, Mexico City. Following the fall of Tenochtitlan, an Aztec poet composed a searing account of the capture of the capital city. Written in the Nahuatl language, using the ...

LOS ANGELES -- In celebration of Earth Month, National Geographic is giving viewers a never-before-seen look at the world of penguins! "If you follow a penguin just for a day, you will realize ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Ahead of Earth Day, National Geographic announced the ourHOME sweepstakes, part of the brand's Earth Month celebration. Open to anyone in the U.S over 18 years old, one lucky ...

National Geographic is taking an unprecedented look back in a new three-part docuseries called "Oklahoma City Bombing: One Day in America." On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building ...

It should go without saying: Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is not a Mexican version of Halloween. Where Halloween is a dark night of terror and mischief ...

The inaugural 'National Geographic 33' list includes the likes of Don Cheadle, Selena Gomez, Sterlin Harjo, Michelle Yeoh and Jason Momoa. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor When the National Geographic ...

By Rania Aniftos National Geographic announced on Tuesday (March 18) the launch of its National Geographic 33, a list honoring 33 individuals whose “imaginative ideas and unstoppable drive are ...

Teotihuacán is often considered much more technologically developed than should have been possible in pre-Aztec Mexico. Carved from stone, the nearly 900 human figures are sprinkled along the ...

The ancient codex, composed around the time the Aztec Empire fell to Spanish conquistadors, features a story of a convulsion that lasted for up to five days, creating landslides and opening up a ...

Lake-effect snow along the "least spectacular of the five Great Lakes" is the focus of a National Geographic story published on the magazine's website on Feb. 26. The article details record ...