Five years ago, archaeologists announced they had discovered a massive Maya structure in southeastern Mexico. Built between ...

Among the early Maya, the site of Aguada Fénix would have been a place for everyone to gather for trade, socialization, and ...

What’s in a name? How much does changing the name of a body of water really matter? These are the questions that irked U.S.-based cartographer Michael Hermann when President Donald Trump renamed the ...

ALBUQUERQUE — A map drafted centuries ago as Spanish settlers solidified their presence in what is now Mexico and the southwestern United States has been returned to the Mexican government, marking ...

A stolen map, dating from the 1700s, was recently recovered by the FBI and returned to the National Archives of Mexico at a ceremony in Albuquerque on Tuesday. Speaking at the Consulate of Mexico, ...

HISTORY, as Mexicans see it, is a largely calamitous chronology of conflict with troublesome foreigners. The first, Conquistador Hernán Cortés, landed near Veracruz A.D. 1519 with horses and 600 men, ...

Unlike renaming Alaska’s tallest mountain Mount McKinley, resuscitating a name bestowed by the federal government in 1917, Gulf of America is not “restoring” a name to the body of water. Far from it, ...

FOOD, SOAPS, LEATHER AND JEWELRY. A HISTORIC MAP MADE BY THE ORIGINAL SPANISH COLONISTS OF SANTA FE RETURNED TO ITS RIGHTFUL OWNERS TODAY. THE SANTA FE MAP, HAND-DRAWN IN THE EARLY 1600S, SHOWS THE ...