TEOTIHUACAN, Mexico (Reuters) - The massive temples and pyramids of Teotihuacan, one of Mexico's top tourist destinations, reopened to visitors on Thursday, more than five months after closing in an ...

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Archaeologists David Carballo and Rebecca Storey examine the ancient bones found at Teotihuacán to find out where the Teotihuacán’s ordinary citizens came from. The teeth reveal that the ancient ...

In the jungles of northern Guatemala, archaeologists brushed away centuries of soil to uncover a small altar that shouldn’t have been there. It stood no taller than a toddler, its four painted faces ...

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MEXICO CITY — In its heyday, Teotihuacan, central Mexico’s magnificent pre-Hispanic metropolis, was a wonder to behold. Laid out over 13 miles of fertile terrain, the city housed as many as 200,000 ...

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 ...

Human and animal sacrifice were part of the culture in ancient Teotihuacan, just outside modern Mexico City. But so were beautiful murals, sculptures and ceramics — artifacts that form the arresting ...

Mexican archaeologist Sergio Gomez Chavez and his colleagues discover a tunnel at the Teotihuacán site that continues in a straight path, directly to the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent which stands ...

TEOTIHUACAN, Mexico -- A Mexican archaeologist hunting for a royal tomb in a deep, dark tunnel beneath a towering pre-Aztec pyramid has made a discovery that may have brought him a step closer: liquid ...