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An Evening with Gray Frederickson & Friends Aztlán Development will unveil their plans for Aztlán Studios on Sunday, August 2 – 1:00 pm at the Fantasy Springs Event Center. The event will be a VIP gathering of movie and studio executives, educators and celebrities. Highlight of the night will be An Evening with Gray […]
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Marilu Waybourn’s new book, “Aztec Through the Years,” is seen as the author answers questions from fourth graders from Park Avenue Elementary School on Thursday at the Aztec Visitor Center. FARMINGTON – Over the course of two days, historian Marilu Waybourn met with every fourth-grade class in Aztec to educate students about their hometown and […]
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Photo byArian Zwegers Many centuries ago on the border of Belize and Guatemala, Maya people built a large city surrounded by a cultivated jungle garden that was home to around 20,000 people, which archaeologists call El Pilar. Using LiDAR laser technology from a helicopter for Light Detection and Ranging, archaeologists have identified a citadel-type structure […]
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Photo byglasseyes view Prior to the coming of Christianity to Mesoamerica, its peoples also had their own creation myths, the most significant that we know of today being the Popol Vuh. The Popol Vuh is the corpus of mythological and historical narratives, including the creation story according to the Quiché-Maya people. In the creation myth […]
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Photo byguillenperez The prevailing theory among archaeologists holds that prehistoric people settled down as they began to grow crops and manage livestock and then built progressively more advanced civilizations with permanent homes and large religious and burial structures, including pyramids. Other people continued hunting and gathering, but according to the prevailing view they lived apart […]
ContinueThe site of JOYA by Cirque du Soleil – launched late last year by Grupo Vidanta and already one of Mexico’s fastest growing tourist attractions – served as the backdrop for Mexico’s government leaders to share their vision for the future of international tourism growth in Mexico. Pena Nieto praised the investment of Grupo Vidanta […]
ContinueThe Olmec, Mayan, Incan, and Aztec civilizations are some of the greatest ancient civilizations in history, and yet we know very little about them compared to other parts of the world. Their exact relationship with the Olmecs remains unclear. So the Olmecs were the first major Mesoamerican culture, despite being younger than the Mayans. The […]
ContinueQuetzalcoatl is a Mesoamerican deity whose name comes from the Nahuatl language and means “Feathered serpent”. The worship of a feathered serpent is first known documented in Teotihuacan in the first century BCE or first century CE. The creature is associated with Mayan, and later, Aztec culture. At temples such as the aptly named “Quetzalcoatl […]
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Photo byChristian Frausto Bernal Archaeologists believe that Coba contains thousands of structures, but only a few are accessible. You can pass ancient ball courts, temples, and other Mayan ruins while walking down roads that have existed for at least 1,000 years. Climb Coba’s massive stone pyramid, Nohoch Mul for a panoramic view of the forest […]
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Photo byArian Zwegers Archaeologists have been exploring the ancient Mayan city of El Pilar in Belize for years, but only recently did they discover an unusual addition to the city: a citadel with a structure unlike that of other Mayan sites. The researchers used light detection and ranging laser technology to locate the citadel in […]
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