The team believes that the precise alignment during the Aztec new year suggests the ancient people were using the basin, as well as man-made structures, to keep a precise track of the calendar.

AZTEC, N.M. – Aztec Ruins National Monument is giving visitors a chance to immerse themselves in an unexcavated ancient Pueblo structure. “You’re going to see what archeologists would have ...

Many scholars regard the Olmec as the “mother culture” of ancient Mesoamerica, a civilization where particular types of monumental architecture, sculpture and gods originated. Among the later Maya, ...

A 3,400-year-old ball court in the southern mountains of Mexico suggests many societies contributed to the development of an ancient, well-known Mesoamerican ball game.

Prior research has shown that ancient people living in Mesoamerica had developed and used a 260-day calendar as far back as 300 to 200 B.C. The written evidence was found on plaster mural fragments.

More information: Sascha Frühholz et al, Psychoacoustic and Archeoacoustic nature of ancient Aztec skull whistles, Communications Psychology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s44271-024-00157-7 ...