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fromBig Think
2 days ago

Ghost map: Europe's first glimpse of Tenochtitlan shows a city already destroyed

The 1524 map of Tenochtitlan reflects the cultural clash and hybridization between indigenous and European perspectives after the city's destruction.
OMG science
fromenglish.elpais.com
6 days ago

The Nazca culture's legacy of adaptation offers clues to the current climate crisis

The Nazca culture's aqueducts and geoglyphs symbolize water and fertility, reflecting ancient wisdom still relevant today.
Design
fromArchDaily
1 week ago

Negotiating Boundaries: Climate and the Building Envelope in Central American Architecture

Architecture in temperate climates focuses on defense against the environment, while in Central America, it emphasizes negotiation with the climate.
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
6 days ago

Toltec human sacrifice altar found in Mexico

The momoztli altar measures about one meter square and consists of three sections: a base of andesite quarry stone, a second section of larger slabs, and a top section of river stones and basalt.
History
Philosophy
fromBig Think
2 weeks ago

Aztec philosophy: How lucky you are to not be in prison right now

Moral luck describes how identical actions result in vastly different moral and legal consequences based on uncontrollable circumstances beyond the actor's intent.
Roam Research
fromArs Technica
2 weeks ago

Study pinpoints when bow and arrow came to North America

North Americans adopted the bow and arrow about 1,400 years ago, replacing the atlatl and dart, with rapid adoption in the south and gradual replacement in the north.
Madrid food
fromcooking.nytimes.com
2 weeks ago

In Mexico, Bread Is the Heart of Daily Life

Mexico maintains a centuries-old baking culture with 60,000 panaderias providing fresh bread as a daily standard, not a luxury, deeply embedded in economic, social, and cultural life.
OMG science
fromArs Technica
2 weeks ago

An early Indigenous site may not be early, but it doesn't really matter

Monte Verde in Chile is 8,000 years old, not 14,500, but this does not alter the understanding of early human presence in the Americas.
#aztec-archaeology
Madrid food
fromTravel + Leisure
3 weeks ago

20 Best Things to Do in Oaxaca, Mexico-From Savoring Mole and Mezcal to Exploring Indigenous Art

Oaxaca offers Indigenous heritage, world-class cuisine featuring mole and mezcal, colonial architecture, traditional crafts, and legendary street food experiences.
Social justice
fromenglish.elpais.com
4 weeks ago

International ruling protects the Garifuna people from Survivor' shoot in Honduras

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned Honduras for violating Garifuna collective property rights and political participation by designating Cayos Cochinos a protected area without proper consultation, favoring tourism and television production over indigenous residents' ancestral access.
Travel
fromTravel + Leisure
4 weeks ago

Is It Safe to Visit Mexico City Right Now? Here's What Travelers Should Know

Mexico City holds a Level 2 travel advisory allowing visits with increased caution, though cartel violence in other Mexican states warrants careful navigation and safety awareness.
History
fromArs Technica
3 weeks ago

Centuries before the Inca, Peru's wealthy imported parrots from afar

The Ychsma kingdom maintained a sophisticated long-distance trade network spanning hundreds of kilometers across the Andes to import live parrots from the Amazon rainforest centuries before the Inca Empire.
fromEast Bay Express | Oakland, Berkeley & Alameda
1 month ago

Anahuac rises on Solano

She has her own house now, the whole American Dream, and it's just crazy from where she came from. Cooking has always been her passion, and it's just super nice to see where she's at now. When her parents went to work, she would always cook for everybody at home in Mexico.
Mission District
Design
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Legacy in Matter: Material Traditions in South American Architecture

South American architecture endures through materials like brick, bamboo, wood, and concrete that persist because they continue to work and remain embedded in construction practices and daily use.
fromColossal
1 month ago

Inside the Sacred Valley Ceramics Studio Referencing Ancient Peruvian Practices

It is not about reproducing the past but about engaging in dialogue with it. We apply the same level of care and rigor to all pieces. Many of our utilitarian pieces have a strong sculptural quality, and several of the more artistic works originate from everyday forms and functions. We do not establish rigid boundaries between these categories; all are part of the same vision.
Arts
fromNature
1 month ago

How infighting led the Maya civilization to catastrophic collapse

Before the 1970s, ancient Maya history was impenetrable. The civilization's grand ceremonial buildings and striking art, created in parts of Mesoamerica during the Classic Maya period (ad 150-900) had tantalized foreign visitors since the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century. But no one, including several million twentieth-century speakers of Maya languages, could read the ancient Maya hieroglyphs.
History
#mexico-city
fromTravel + Leisure
1 month ago
Travel

Mexico City was ranked the world's most culturally rich destination, thanks to its museums, galleries, and iconic institutions like Casa Azul.

fromTravel + Leisure
1 month ago
Travel

Mexico City was ranked the world's most culturally rich destination, thanks to its museums, galleries, and iconic institutions like Casa Azul.

fromMail Online
2 months ago

Lost tomb of mysterious 'cloud people' unearthed after 1,400 years

Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered a 1,400-year-old tomb in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca that had been lost to history. The stone structure, built by the Zapotec culture, known as Be'ena'a, or 'The Cloud People', is adorned with sculptures, murals and carved symbols that suggest ritual significance. The Zapotec believed their ancestors descended from the clouds and that, in death, their souls returned to the heavens as spirits.
World news
US politics
fromEmptywheel
2 months ago

Third Cave's a Charm

Republicans will block expiration of Bush tax cuts; Democrats could see a $3.6 trillion tax increase in 2012 if Obama does not act.
History
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Who Decides What Is Worth Preserving? Power and Heritage in Latin America

Heritage is a community-rooted process linking identity, place, and memory, shaped by contested professional decisions amid inequality and ecological crisis.
US news
fromFuncheap
1 month ago

2026 Azteca Mexica New Year Festival in San Jose (March 13-15)

Calpulli Tonalehqueh hosts the nation’s largest Azteca Mexica New Year: a free, family-friendly, three-day celebration with 500+ dancers and 150+ vendor booths.
National Football League
fromFuncheap
1 month ago

2026 Azteca Mexica New Year Festival in San Jose (March 13-15)

Largest U.S. Azteca Mexica New Year: free, family-friendly three-day celebration March 13–15, 2026, in San Jose with 500+ dancers and 15,000 attendees.
fromKqed
1 month ago

Maidu Tribe Returns to Its Roots of Ancestral Fire | KQED

The Maidu tribe of Butte County-Berry Creek, Mechoopda, Mooretown, Enterprise and Konkow Valley, come together to conduct CAL-TREX prescribed burn training to relearn how to put helpful fire back on their native lands that have been devastated by recent catastrophic wildfires. Organizers say the training camp is designed to help restore fire-scarred lands and people. While other Northern California tribes have been reintroducing cultural fire for decades,
California
Business
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Navigating the ghosts of cultures past

Organizational culture constantly changes; leaders must discern which legacy cultural elements to retain and which to remove while balancing enduring beliefs with adaptive practices.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month ago

Ornate 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb discovered in Mexico

"At Monte Albán alone, more than 200 tombs of varying size and decoration reflect social, political and economic differences among the ancient Zapotecs," Javier Urcid, an anthropology professor at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, tells The Art Newspaper. "Built beneath residences, tombs were reused over generations-with additional burials and occasional changes to offerings or decoration. The inscribed genealogies verified membership in family lineages."
Science
History
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
1 month ago

1,000-year-old gold-filled tomb unearthed in Panama

A richly furnished elite Coclé tomb (800–1000 A.D.) at El Cano reveals ornate gold and ceramics, indicating centralized chiefdoms with long-distance exchange and ritual complexity.
fromCN Traveller
2 months ago

This underrated Mexican city's artisans have transformed their home into a shopaholic's paradise

Traveller check into hotels for easy access to historical Mayan sites and the cenotes beyond, with ambles through colourful squares and late, balmy nights digesting feasts over tequila tipples. Between cultural excursions and natural wonders, however, there's much to be said for the artisans in these parts. From crafted perfumes to handmade chocolates, these are the gifts and trinkets to make space for in your luggage.
Food & drink
Canada news
fromFast Company
2 months ago

This whole city block got an indigenous redesign

An Indigenous-led Toronto development integrates traditional healing, cultural design, housing, job training, and public spaces to reflect Indigenous traditions and community-led planning.
Fashion & style
fromTravel + Leisure
1 month ago

An Insider's Guide to Merida, the Yucatan's Most Enchanting City

Carlos Huber of Arquiste creates evocative fragrances inspired by historical scenes, his Mérida villa, and Yucatán culture.
Travel
fromwww.cntraveler.com
1 month ago

The 9 Best Cities in Mexico: CDMX, Guadalajara, and Beyond

Mexico's cities are global cultural hubs offering diverse music lineups, centuries-old cuisine and traditions, major events, and rich museum and arts calendars.
fromFuncheap
1 month ago

2026 Azteca Mexica New Year Festival in San Jose (March 13-15)

Join us for the 28th Annual Mexica New Year, March 13-15, 2026 for a weekend filled with Native traditional dancers, a sunrise ceremony, arts & crafts market and delicious food. Our gathering brings together over 500 Aztec Dancers from throughout the US and Mexico, 7 Northern California Native tribes including our local Muwekma Ohlone tribe of the SF Bay Area and other Native tribes from the US and Mexico.
Arts
fromTravel + Leisure
1 month ago

You Can Soon Visit Clase Azul's First-ever Cultural House in Mexico City-Here's What to Expect

Spirits brand Clase Azul México will soon open a brand-new home in the city's Polanco area on Feb. 17, offering guided tastings, rotating art installations, private events, and more. The new address, dubbed "Casa de Los Leones," or House of the Lions, was built in a historic mansion where original elements like stained glassed windows were preserved, juxtaposed with contemporary design.
Travel
History
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong

Classic Maya lowlands likely supported up to 16 million people during AD 600–900, implying unprecedented population density, complex agriculture, and advanced urban organization.
Arts
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

The Secrets of Indigenous Art

Modern European and American modernists drew heavily from Indigenous arts, while museums long framed Indigenous adoption of Western forms as a loss of authenticity.
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Mysterious symbols spanning the globe hint at a lost civilization

His investigation began after identifying recurring giant T-shapes, three-level indents, and step pyramids carved into ancient stones worldwide. 'These specific symbols that are built in different size proportions, and the symbols are found in ancient stones around the world, are not supposed to exist; no cultures are supposed to have any cross-platform,' LaCroix explained. The symbols appear in locations ranging from Turkey's Van region to South America and Cambodia.
History
History
fromMedievalists.net
1 month ago

New Online Course: The Americas during the Middle Ages - Medievalists.net

An online six-week course examines indigenous peoples of North America and Mesoamerica (500–1500 CE), emphasizing diverse peoples, environments, lifestyles, and pre-contact historical trends.
History
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Andrea Martinez Baracs, historian: Indigenous allies saved the Spanish on the Night of Sorrows'

Tlaxcalans allied with the Spanish as strategic partners, maintaining autonomy and leveraging local knowledge to oppose the Triple Alliance during conquest.
History
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

The underground odyssey that led archaeologists to a Zapotec burial site

Looting revealed a hidden Zapotec Tomb of the Owl near La Cantera, which took six years to locate and links to the ancient Zapotec civilization.
History
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
2 months ago

1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb found in southern Mexico

A 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb with exceptionally preserved murals, reliefs, and ritual iconography was unearthed in Oaxaca, offering new insights into Zapotec ancestor worship and hierarchy.
History
fromOpen Culture
1 month ago

Discover Khipu, the Ancient Incan Record & Writing System Made Entirely of Knots

Inca khipus encoded inventories, censuses, and historical narratives via knots, cord position, length, and fiber color, functioning as portable organic data systems.
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