What is the summer solstice? F or many people, the summer solstice is simply the first day of summer and the longest day of ...

A German tourist was beaten by enraged locals after illegally climbing a sacred Mayan temple in Mexico during a celebration ... annual equinox event where the sun creates the illusion of a serpent ...

A university in Mexico City donated a pair of robots ... Up above, there was the Temple of the Sun and the eternal day. Down below, the stars—not of this earth—and the deepest night.

This photograph shows the Temple of the Sun at Palenque as it looked in 1889 when it was first photographed by Alfred Maudsley, an early English Mesoamerican archaeologist. The temple was built in ...

Depictions of him have surfaced across cultures, including the Aztecs, but now the first temple dedicated to the fertility god, known also as Xipe Totec, has been found. Mexico’s National ...

Called the Temple of the Night Sun, it features a series of striking stone monuments, including various depictions of the Maya sun god as a shark, jaguar, and blood drinker. Archaeologists are ...

"What we found was a temple inside the large temple." Teopanzolco is managed by Mexico’s National Institute ... Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? Email us at [email protected] ...

The temple lies about 37 miles north of Mexico City and the site houses the ... It is best known for the towering Pyramids of the Moon and the Sun. Earlier this year, the team and the remote ...

Mexican experts have found the first temple of the Flayed Lord, a pre-Hispanic fertility god depicted as a skinned human corpse, authorities said Wednesday. Mexico's National Institute of ...

The discovery is being hailed as significant by authorities at Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History because it is a whole temple, not merely depictions of the deity, which have ...

Teotihuacan and its valley bear unique testimony to the pre-urban structures of ancient Mexico. Human occupation ... from which the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, as well as the Great Compound with ...

the god of sun and war, at the foot of an Aztec temple. The child was buried deep in the floor of Templo Mayor in present-day Mexico City, the site of the former Aztec metropolis Tenochtitlan ...