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 ...

During the second part of the 16th century, Sahagún compiled a vast compendium on Aztec customs, entitled the General History of the Things of New Spain. The lavishly illustrated manuscript ...

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

Latin America’s ambivalence toward holidays to commemorate the colonizers has taken a turn since 1992. The 500-year ...

Despite the mysticism that often clouds the Mayan calendar in popular culture ... them to recover and reconnect to the parts of their history that were so brutally destroyed by the invading ...

From the death cults of Egypt to the fearsome yet sophisticated society of the Vikings, the ancient world was a surprising and challenging place. Explore the in-depth sections below. The ancient ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Speaking of politics, the political history of the Aztec Empire is riveting and thoroughly, surprisingly, modern: The power struggles, the built economies and trade goods, the family and social ...