Go to updated and illustrated post. __1790: __Workers doing repairs in Mexico City unearth a massive stone bearing ancient symbols. It turns out to be a representation of the Aztec calendar and will ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

That's according to the Aztec calendar, which will soon be displayed in all nine of its colors on bumpers around the valley. The 500-year-old, circular figure is featured in Nevada's latest "specialty ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a twentieth century replica ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...