Chili peppers have a long history spanning thousands of years, starting from Mesoamerica. The spicy fruits have made their ...

The international community has a golden opportunity to start reining in the escalating, mostly ignored global burden of ...

Villagers in Mexico just uncovered 2,500-year-old ruins of the Zapotec "Cloud People" on a 6,000-foot mountaintop. The ruins ...

Cervezalandia serves Mexican-inspired beers only, making it the largest of its kind in the nation and maybe the world ...

In a region packed with historically important cities, few can claim to have played such a long and pivotal role as Puebla.

A hidden chamber in Mexico's Tlayócoc cave has revealed ancient artifacts from a long-lost civilization, offering a rare glimpse into the past.

With such remarkable achievements, the center has earned a stellar reputation in the academic world both at home and abroad, attracting brilliant researchers from across the world over the past two ...

A study of 50,000 houses from the late Pleistocene to the onset of European colonialism has revealed that social inequality isn't inevitable, but rather a consequence of political choices.

From demon to danger noodle, human ideas about snakes can be as contradictory as the creatures themselves. In Slither, Stephen S. Hall challenges our serpent stereotypes.

An ancient altar found in Guatemala offers striking evidence of the relationship between the Maya and the ancient metropolis ...

In 'Little Rebels,' Caldecott Honoree Yuyi Morales draws on her Mexican heritage to inspire young readers to work together to be friends to the Earth and its beings.

Tikal, one of the most powerful Maya city-states, became a rival in this network. Previous discoveries — such as the famous ...