A Centuries-Old Map Is Returned to Mexico After It Was Recovered in Santa Fe ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A map drafted centuries ago as Spanish settlers solidified their presence in what is now Mexico ...
Five years ago, archaeologists announced they had discovered a massive Maya structure in southeastern Mexico. Built between ...
A 400-year-old map of Mexico dating from the Spanish Empire is now being displayed for the first time at the United States Library of Congress. Known as the Codex Quetzalecatzin, it was created by ...
Was the 1521 surrender of the great Indigenous empire to the Spanish crown a triumphant conquest, an existential tragedy—or even a genocide? Generations of Mexican schoolchildren were taught the story ...
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, ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — 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, ...