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Rock Art Discovered in Central Mexico

Digs & Discoveries May/June 2026

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Stucco owl headdress relief

Luis Gerardo Peña Torres/INAH

Features May/June 2026

On the shores of a lake in Guatemala, the Itzá people defied the Spanish for nearly 200 years

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Flores Island, Guatemala

Courtesy Timothy Pugh/Itzá Archaeological Project

Model Homes March/April 2026

LOCATION: Nayarit State, Mexico
DATE: 200 b.c.a.d. 300

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Joanne P. Pearson, in memory of Andrall E. Pearson, 2015

Features January/February 2026

Archaeologists decode the sacred mathematics embedded in an ancient city’s architecture

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Courtesy Claudia I. Alvarado-León