Minanbé, an intact site in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, sheds new light on the Maya Lowlands

Unique decorative and architectural elements may point to a previously unknown group in present-day Veracruz

A site-specific project emerges from the conservation of the museum’s 16th-century building

Recognition by the International Union of Geological Sciences highlights how stone can reveal and preserve a city's material history

The objects, a stone mask and an intricate ceramic figure, are scheduled to be auctioned Thursday morning in New York

A battle over new visitor facilities highlights tensions between tourism development and local livelihoods

More than 150 guns and an iron cannon were recently documented at the Síis Já cenote in Yucatán

A Canadian woman was killed in an attack from atop the Pyramid of the Moon allegedly linked to the “Columbine effect”

Archaeologists discovered the site during salvage operations for the new Mexico City-Querétaro passenger rail line

The Florida-based seller claims the listed objects were purchased legally, adding: “I suggest you research the laws”

Six volcanic-stone boxes found at Templo Mayor reveal a ceremony linked to Moctezuma I’s imperial expansion

Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum has called it ”the most important archaeological finding of the last decade”

It took the intervention of President Claudia Sheinbaum to open the doors again at the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City

Someone attempted to dislodge a drawing of a hand from a rock with more than 150 motifs dating back thousands of years

Highway road work has uncovered an ancient civilisation’s ceremonial centrepiece

Local authorities respond that mummy deterioration is not new and even inevitable given a history of visitors “touching them or taking souvenirs, such as bits of clothing”

Archaeologists at the pre-Hispanic site of Palenque discovered the finely carved artefact, believed to be at least 1,100 years old

Recent excavations at a site in the state of Tamaulipas included analysis of large earthen mounds that were used for burials and everyday activities

The National Institute of Anthropology and History has recently accused two auction houses of holding problematic—yet not illegal—sales of historic objects

Archaeologists believe the pre-Columbian wall drawing of a god wearing a feathered headdress likely depicts Tepoztēcatl, the god of pulque

The elaborate temple relief, now held by the Museo Nacional de Antropología, was extracted from the Maya jungle in the 1960s and offered to the Met for $400,000

Following a string of auction sales of ancient artefacts from Mexico, artist Pepx Romero is taking measures into his own lips

The ‘precious relics’ discovered at Templo Mayor link Aztec cosmology to the sea

The frieze, discovered in Oaxaca in 2018, contains glyphs symbolising themes related to superstition and social hierarchies in the Zapotec and Mixtec cultures

With more than 14,000 artefacts discovered in the project's path, protestors say pre-Hispanic heritage sites could be destroyed by the construction