AZTEC (AP) – Retired archaeologist Jeff Wharton used maps to explain the size of Aztec North, an unexcavated great house at Aztec Ruins National Monument, during a guided tour of a part of the park ...

More than 100 visitors gathered to witness how ancestral Pueblo people tracked seasons through sunlight alignments at this ...

FARMINGTON — Aztec Ruins National Monument may be the subject of a centennial celebration this year marking its establishment in 1923, but the 318-acre, ancestral Puebloan site still possesses the ...

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 ...

TEMPLO MAYOR MUSEUM DIRECTOR, PATRICIA LEDEZMA BOUCHAN: "What happened was that the Mexicas settled in a lake. The architecture imposed by Europeans wasn't built for the ground on which the Mexcias ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Archaeologists have discovered what they think are ruins of an Aztec pyramid razed by vengeful Spanish conquerors in what is now one of Mexico City's most crime-ridden ...

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.