Chaco Culture National Park and the Aztec Ruins National Monument on Saturday hosted winter solstice events on Dec. 21, the shortest day of the year. Chaco opened to the first 100 visitors to arrive ...

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It was the evening after the winter solstice at Aztec Ruins National Monument in northwest New Mexico, near the town of Aztec. Although we were a day late per the solar calendar, the park service ...

MEXICO CITY, July 8 (Reuters) - For 14 months, a team of more than 80 engineers, surveyors, restorers, architects and archaeologists have been toiling to protect part of one of Mexico's most important ...

The inscriptions are essentially antique graffiti rendered with a lead pencil, quill pen, knife or other carving tool. Each inscription was photographed, measured, documented and interpreted.

MEXICO CITY — Mexican archaeologists said Monday they have unearthed the remains of an Aztec palace once inhabited by the emperor Montezuma in the heart of what is now downtown Mexico City. During a ...