The language you learn as a child becomes the lens through which you understand the world. A team of researchers from over 30 ...

By comparing the table with our modern knowledge of eclipse cycles, they found that with this method, the Maya would have ...

As artificial intelligence becomes the "genetic code" of modern enterprises, a new generation of talent must also adopt an AI ...

I wonder what those 15th-century monks who slaved away copying the Holy Scriptures by hand thought when they saw the first ...

There are hundreds of caves in Belize that served as portals to what the Maya called Xibalba—home to ancient death gods, rituals, and extraordinary relics left behind. Accessible only by kayak or ...

New research reveals how Mayan astronomers built a precise eclipse prediction system using complex lunar mathematics.

Generative AI poses the biggest threat to press freedom in decades, and journalists should act quickly to organize themselves and radically reshape its power to produce news. Journalism, too, is ...

In May 1562, Diego de Landa, the highest-ranking Catholic authority in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, received word that a large number of idols, along with human bones and deer meat, had been discovered ...

The mystery of the now-ruined Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan may rest in a lost language scholars said they’ve deciphered. The ruins near Mexico City include murals that scholars believe represent ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. My relationship with English began by force. Growing up in A Coruña, ...

The culture that thrived at Teotihuacan in the Classic period has a unique place in Mesoamerican history. Today, it is held as an emblem of the Mexican national past and is one of the most visited ...

More than two millennia ago, Teotihuacan was a thriving metropolis in central Mexico with up to 125,000 inhabitants. The city had gigantic pyramids and was a cultural center in Mesoamerica at the time ...