The Xenophanes of Colophon (c.500 BC) believed the Earth was flat and carried the belief into the 5th century BC. That was long ago, and much has happened, shaping the ideologies people believe in ...

Day of the Dead might sound like a solemn affair, but Mexico’s famous holiday is actually a lively commemoration of the ...

While Catholicism is firmly entrenched in current Día de Muertos celebrations, its roots go back to ancient Aztec and Nahua ...

Hygiene and ritual marked every moment of life for pregnant Aztec women. The tlamatlquiticitl—midwife—offered those in her charge a remarkable 16th-century birthing plan, combining practical ...

They did not erect temples and disseminate cultural traditions across the countryside as the ancient Romans or Inca did. Instead, the Aztec maintained what some scholars call "a cheap empire," one ...

Celebrate Día de los Muertos with a multitude of events at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington on Friday, November 1.

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以下为2024年10-12月马拉松赛事日历，赛事日历部分来源于赛事组委会及世界田联官网日历，仅供跑友参考，最终比赛日期以后续组委会最新发布为准。

The Chinese Agricultural Calendar uses lunar months to determine its dates, but it also has “solar terms” which are based on the solar year. These solar terms helped the ancient Chinese people ...

25, 2024 — Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found ... likely represent the world's oldest solar calendar, created as a memorial to a devastating ...

The remains of an ancient Aztec palace have been discovered under a stately building in Mexico City. During renovations at the building off the capital's central Zócalo plaza, workers found ...

Mexico's national cathedral – the vaulting, austere, ornate church on the Zócalo's north end – was once the site of an ancient Aztec precinct, so it has housed the city's spiritual core for ...