Ever wanted to step back in time to the days of the Aztecs? With the Codex Mendoza, you can. Reading this document takes you back to the mid-16th century, shortly after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, ...

Yuri Knorozov's seminal 1963 work, "The Writing of the Maya Indians," cracked the code of how to decipher Mayan writing. (TASS) It’s 1952, and Western archaeologists are trekking through lush Central ...

Thousands of people visit Teotihuacan each year, drawn by its massive pyramids and wide stone roads. But behind the familiar landmarks, one of archaeology’s biggest mysteries has lingered for decades: ...

Where did the Aztec calendar come from? The calendar’s origins can be traced to earlier Mesoamerican civilisations, mainly linked to the Maya, who had created a system of timekeeping before the rise ...

At the end of the year, we naturally get a calendar for the following year. So, when was the calendar first created? The "calendar" was born during the transition from a hunting civilization to an ...

A crop of new nonfiction books, all out this coming week, explore the lives and legacies of trailblazing women around the world, from artists and activists to novelists and scientists. Grindle ...

It took 500 years for Yuri Knorozov, a Soviet soldier, to achieve what no one had ever done before: decipher the Mayan hieroglyphic writing. For centuries, many experts around the world had been ...

This Aztec pictogram depicts warriors drowning as a temple burns in the background. New research links the scene to a 1507 earthquake. Courtesy of Gerardo Suárez and Virginia García-Acosta A ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Do our myths come from the stars or do we project our myths onto the stars? The story of Mithras truly does come from astronomical discoveries in the ancient world. It was noticed that every 2,160 ...

We’ve put a man on the Moon, come up with the theory of general relativity, split the atom – the list of breakthroughs in making the impossible possible goes on and on. Humanity can achieve pretty ...

A mysterious manuscript that appears to be written in gibberish may actually be in an extinct dialect of the Mexican language Nahuatl. Illustrations of plants in the manuscript have been linked to ...