The faded battling figures, colorful murals were discovered by archaeologists digging a tomb complex in San Pedro Nexicho. San Pedro Nexicho is located in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, approximately 305 miles southeast of Mexico City.
The oldest concrete proof of conflicts between Ice Age humans and megafauna in the Basin of Mexico can be found in this hunter gatherer hideaway.
At the location of the final Mayan stronghold in Guatemala, human burial grounds and Spanish pistol bullet fragments were discovered.
According to Mayan legend, the maize god was decapitated at harvest each year and reborn in the new growing season. A sculpted head of a Mayan maize god was discovered during excavations in Palenque, Mexico, according to a group of archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History.
Archaeologists have revealed their on the ruins of a 1,500-year-old Mayan village during construction of an industrial park on Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula, complete with palaces, pyramids, and plazas.