UNAM experts reveal the incredible role that Xoloitzcuintle dogs have played in Mexico, from pre-conquest times to today.

B efore he was identified as an indigenous god, Quetzalcoatl was simply a peculiar snake-bird carving on a broken stone tablet found in Mexico—a carving, it turns out, from the Mesoamerican ...

The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50 km north-east of Mexico City. Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., it is characterized by the vast ...

THE AZTECS of central Mexico attributed the creation of the cacao beans to their god Quetzalcoatl who descended from heaven on a beam of a morning star carrying a cacao tree stolen from paradise ...