Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient skull with an unusual deformity that reveals far more than meets the eye. Mexico's ...

On the outskirts of the Mexican resort town of Tulum, overlooking the Caribbean sea from a densely jungled hilltop, are the remains of a Mayan city known as Zama, or “Dawn.” The ruins look similar to ...

The sequel to the 2018 Marvel blockbuster features a Maya-inspired antihero played by Mexican actor Tenoch Huerta Nili Blanck - Correspondent The silver-screen version of Namor has a reimagined ...

Scientists examined the skull's bones and teeth and found that the individual likely lived in Tamaulipas his entire life.

Move over, Indiana Jones. In her undergraduate work authenticating the Mesoamerican greenstone collection at BYU’s Museum of Peoples and Cultures, anthropology student Chloe Burkey developed an eagle ...

When you compare how movies and TV treat Mesoamerican culture and mythology to how they treat the Ancient Greek world, it’s not hard to see the difference. (Though we won’t get too deep into the ...

The most famous cannibal in modern cinema delivered a line that became iconic precisely because it evokes in the audience both hunger and disgust. Humans eat food to sate a biological need; we eat to ...

A team of archaeoastronomers suggests the Pyramid of the Moon in Teotihuacán, Mexico, may have been constructed to align with the movement of the sun. Gorgo, Public domain Thirty miles northeast of ...

From massive hotel development through the agriculture industry, humans are destroying the second largest barrier reef in the world: the Mesoamerican Reef. Although global climate change and its ...

Archaeologists discovered 478 Mesoamerican monuments hidden in the jungles of southeastern Mexico. They located the ruins by analyzing 3D mapping data collected from the air using lasers. These sites ...

Editor’s Note: This story was identified by Patricia Zurita, who is guest editor for Call to Earth’s “Nature’s Highways” theme. For sharks, turtles and rays in the Caribbean, the Mesoamerican Reef – ...