Researchers have long pondered the significance of Feb. 23, the date of the Aztec New Year. New findings suggest it aided in the accurate tracking of the seasons. Modern and past Indigenous peoples, ...

Learn more about Zelia Nuttall, a self-taught scholar who helped uncover many Mesoamerican artifacts.

Many scientists believe that the heart of the Sun Stone or Aztec Calendar was the face of Tonatiuh, god of the sun There is a special relationship between a solar eclipse, like this April 8, and the ...

Scientists suggest in a new study that ancient Mesoamericans tracked leap years using a sunlit horizon. By Becky Ferreira Long before Europeans colonized North America, the Indigenous peoples in the ...

The Aztec calendar is different from the Maya calendar. The latter one has recently gained wide popularity due to the year 2012 prediction of the end of the world. The Aztec and the Maya people, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Officials on Tuesday arrested eight Southern ...