Thirty miles northeast of Mexico City, in the ancient Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacán, is a huge monument known as the “Pyramid of the Moon.” Recently, a team of archaeoastronomers proposed ...

This episode covers megalithic jars used in funerary rites, Nubian pyramids rivaling Egypt, and some of the oldest stone ...

Archaeologists in southern Mexico announced Monday they have discovered a 2,700-year-old tomb of a dignitary inside a pyramid that may be the oldest such burial documented in Mesoamerica.

MEXICO CITY — Archaeologists in southern Mexico announced Monday they have discovered a 2,700-year-old tomb of a dignitary inside a pyramid that may be the oldest such burial documented in ...

Teotihuacan is home to some of the most significant Mesoamerican pyramids. At its height, around A.D. 400, the city was one of the largest in the world and a regional hub of trade.

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and monuments that point to its significance as an important ceremonial site, ...

In a study published Monday, researchers describe how they used this kind of laser mapping data to uncover nearly 500 Mesoamerican sites between about 2,000 and 3,000 years old.

The playful primate may have been a diplomatic gift to Teotihuacan from the Maya at a time of murky relations between the two powerful Mesoamerican groups. Teotihuacan’s Pyramid of the Sun as ...