Recent Posts Tagged With 'Mexico'

• Digital Images Recreate Aztec's Templo Mayor

  Posted on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at 14:02 in Mexico, temples, aztec

  Digital visualization of Templo Mayor prior to destruction.Templo Mayor plaza viewed from the Temple of the Sun.Digital images now provide what is considered a reasonable concept of the appearance of a spectacular 16th century Aztec temple in what is...

• Aztec King's Tomb Still Eludes Archaeologists

  Posted on Tuesday June 16th, 2009 at 23:22 in Mexico, aztec

  Archaeologist cleans the Tlaltecuhtli monolith, looking for blood samples that would indicate human sacrifices at the site.Archeologists continue to dig in the dirt and black ooze under Mexico City in hopes of finding the burial place of one of the l...

• Ancient Native Americans Decorated Teeth

  Posted on Tuesday May 19th, 2009 at 19:22 in Mexico, body decoration

  Ancient skull found in Chiapas, Mexico, displays embedded gems and notched teeth.Sophisticated dentistry allowed Native Americans to decorate their teeth with gems, notches and grooves as far back as 2,500 years ago. The finding is based on a survey ...

• Balsa Rafts Permitted Ancient American Trading

  Posted on Monday May 4th, 2009 at 16:52 in Mexico, ecuador, rafts

  Dutch envoy Joris van Spilbergen sketched this South American balsa raft in 1619.An MIT doctoral candidate and her colleagues may have solved the mystery of why a specific style of ancient metalwork appears in South America and in western Mexico, but...

• More Relics Found Near Mysterious Pyramid

  Posted on Tuesday December 9th, 2008 at 18:59 in Mexico, pyramids, toltec

  Archaeologists continue to debate the origin of the mysterious Huapalcalco pyramid in the central Mexican state of Hildalgo.Sculptures recently found in central Mexico point to a previously unknown culture that likely built a mysterious pyramid in th...