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The Temple of the Inscriptions pyramid at Palenque
History

Inside Palenque, Where a Maya King’s Tomb Stayed Hidden

Deep in the Chiapas jungle, Palenque became a Classic Maya masterpiece under King Pakal, whose hidden tomb inside the Temple of Inscriptions remains one of archaeology’s greatest discoveries.

Main Plaza of Monte Alban with Building J and the North Platform, Oaxaca
History

Monte Alban, the Zapotec Capital Carved Into a Mountain

Built atop an artificially leveled mountain around 500 BCE, Monte Alban became the Zapotec capital of Oaxaca and home to some of the earliest writing found anywhere in Mesoamerica.

Overview of the Paquime archaeological site at Casas Grandes, Mexico
History

Paquime: The Adobe Trading City of Casas Grandes

Paquime in Chihuahua, Mexico was a multi-story adobe trading city that bred macaws and engineered running water, linking the Southwest and Mesoamerica from 1200 to 1450 CE.

North face of the La Venta (Olmec) pyramid, Tabasco, Mexico.
History

Stone Heads in the Jungle: How the Olmec Built Mesoamerica’s First Civilization at La Venta

Fourteen centuries before the Aztec ever set eyes on the Valley of Mexico, a people we call the Olmec were already carving stone faces the size of small cars and

History

Templo Mayor: The Aztec Great Pyramid at the Center of the World

In the heart of Mexico City lie the ruins of the Templo Mayor, the Aztec double pyramid where the universe was said to begin. Its rise, its sacrifices, its fall, and its rediscovery.

History

Teotihuacán: The Pyramid of the Sun and the Lost City of the Gods

An hour from Mexico City stands a giant pyramid built by a people whose name and language are lost. Inside Teotihuacán, the Pyramid of the Sun, and its haunting mysteries.

History

The Great Pyramid of Cholula: The World’s Largest Pyramid Hidden as a Hill

The largest pyramid on Earth is not in Egypt. It hides as a grassy hill in Mexico with a church on top, and the Spanish built on it without ever knowing what lay beneath.

Monument 52, seated Olmec were-jaguar sculpture from San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan, Veracruz. Now in the Museo Nacional de An
History

The Oldest Colossal Heads in the Americas Were Carved Here: The Story of San Lorenzo

Before La Venta, before the Maya, before every great civilization of ancient Mexico, there was a capital on the Gulf coast where the first colossal stone heads of the Americas

The Atlantes warrior columns atop Pyramid B at Tula
History

Why the Aztecs Called Tula Their Ancestral Home

North of Mexico City, Tula’s basalt warrior columns mark the Toltec capital that Aztec rulers later revered as Tollan, the legendary birthplace of civilization itself.