Maya canoe surrounded by animal and human bones found in Chichen Itza

A wooden canoe surrounded by human and animal skeletons near the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá may have been used as part of a ritual. In 2021, divers in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula discovered the boat and bones deep inside an underwater cave located 15 feet (4.6 meters) below the water’s surface. In total, archaeologists […]

Michigan State University Anthropologist says ancient Maya collected trophies made from human skulls

According to Gabriel D. Wrobel, Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University, two trophy skulls, discovered by archaeologists in the jungles of Belize, may help shed light on the little-understood collapse of the once powerful Classic Maya civilization. The defleshed and painted human skulls, meant to be worn around the neck as pendants, were buried with a […]

The number of cases of dengue decreases in Yucatan

Although Yucatán continues to be the second state in the Mexican Republic with the most cases of dengue, the number of new cases per day has decreased, since until just over a month ago the incidence of three infections every 24 hours, but now it is two. According to the epidemiological bulletin of the Dengue […]

Giant scorpion caught inside a house in Ciudad Caucel, Yucatán

MERIDA, YUCATAN.- Through social networks, several residents of Ciudad Caucel, in Mérida, reported the appearance of giant scorpions in their homes, and warned that these insects release a strange “blue poison.” A resident of the area spread the photographs of a colossal scorpion, which he managed to catch with a pair of tweezers as it […]

Is AMLO driving Mexico toward an environmental disaster?

As dozens of scientists gathered in Switzerland last month to finalize a seminal United Nations report on the climate crisis, across the Atlantic, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was gearing up for a celebration of all things oil. On 18 March, he joined tens of thousands of people in the heart of Mexico City […]