Two ancient Maya cities discovered in the jungle of southeastern Mexico
In the tropical forest of central Yucatan peninsula, two large Maya sites have been discovered by an archaeological expedition led by Ivan Šprajc, of the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU).
Dating and DNA show Paleoamerican-Native American connection
Eastern Asia, Western Asia, Japan, Beringia and even Europe have all been suggested origination points for the earliest humans to enter the Americas because of apparent differences in cranial form between today's Native Americans and the earliest known Paleoamerican skeletons.
Aztec burial and rests of a sacred tree found at Templo Mayor
A burial of more than 500 years of age, integrated by the complete skeleton of a man surrounded by more than 1,000 bones of children, young and adult people, was recently found by archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH-Conaculta) in the Historical Center of Mexico City, at the main temple of Tenochtitlan (Templo Mayor).
Tombstones over 550 years old discovered at Tenochtitlan
In the sacred place of Tenochtitlan, archaeologists from INAH-Conaculta (The Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History and the Mexican National Council for Culture and the Arts), have found 23 tombstones over 550 years old, with etched images of snakes, prisoners, ornaments and warriors, which, as a whole, appears to depict the story alluding to the birth of Huitzilopochtli and the origins of the Holy War between the Mexicas.
Jade Mask, Discovered in Pyramid of the Sun
Archaeologists that participate in the Pyramid of the Sun Project, conducted by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH Conaculta), discovered a series of deposits at the interior of the Prehispanic construction; one of them may be the offering placed during the first 50 years of our era, to consecrate the beginning of the construction of the greatest monument of Teotihuacan.
