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Laser mapping reveals massive ancient Zapotec city in Mexican forest

Long thought to be a fortress, Guiengola has been revealed as a sprawling city thanks to airborne lidar analysis

Lucía Sanromán, la nueva curadora en jefe del Muac de la Ciudad de México, tiene una visión de un museo más socialmente responsable

Sanromán tiene una ambiciosa misión para el Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo que incluye reparar su fracturada relación con la comunidad local

Lucía Sanromán, the new chief curator of Mexico City's Muac, has a vision for a more socially engaged museum

Sanromán has an ambitious agenda for the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo that includes repairing its fractured relationship with the local community

Restored mural by Philip Guston, Reuben Kadish and Jules Langsner unveiled in Mexico

The work at the Museo Regional Michoacano Dr Nicolás León Calderón was obscured behind a false wall for decades

Will Mexico’s push for repatriation continue with the country’s new government?

Under former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who in October was replaced by Claudia Sheinbaum, 14,000 artefacts were returned over a period of eight years

Ancient petroglyph irreparably damaged in Mexico

Someone attempted to dislodge a drawing of a hand from a rock with more than 150 motifs dating back thousands of years

1,375-year-old pyramid structure found in Hidalgo, Mexico

Highway road work has uncovered an ancient civilisation’s ceremonial centrepiece

Polychrome 17th-century statue that was stolen from a church in 2007 is returned to Mexico

The artefact had been recovered from a US gallery in 2017, but since then its status was a mystery

Manhattan District Attorney's Office returns antiquities worth a total of $500,000 to Mexico

The trove of 30 Mesoamerican objects includes a ceremonial trophy for the first ball game

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The limits of transnational women’s solidarity in Mexico City’s art scene

Recent episodes of censorship at two of the city’s leading art museums have laid bare the rifts between artists, institutions and their publics

Maya city with pyramids, plazas and a ballcourt discovered in Mexican jungle

Research team uncovers settlement hidden for centuries using laser mapping technology

Leonora Carrington’s Mexico City home will no longer become a public museum

The house will be a research centre instead, allegedly due to a labour struggle at the university that owns it

Mellon Foundation launches $25m fund to support culture along the US-Mexico border

The inaugural Frontera Culture Fund will contribute to 32 arts and community organisations

Latest Fourth Plinth sculpture pays tribute to transgender communities

The work by Teresa Margolles is made up of casts of the faces of 726 trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people from the UK and Mexico

Heavy rains cause partial collapse of ancient pyramid in Mexico

Authorities said that significant precipitation amid a severe drought had undermined the Purépecha structure at Ihuatzio

Laser scanning reveals lost Maya structures in forests of Campeche

Archaeologists have used light-detection and ranging (Lidar) technology to uncover new findings about ancient Maya Lowland settlements

Up in arms: Mexican archaeological bureau denounces damage to at least one mummy in Guanajuato’s famous museum

Local authorities respond that mummy deterioration is not new and even inevitable given a history of visitors “touching them or taking souvenirs, such as bits of clothing”

30 archaeological artefacts returned to Mexican authorities in Los Angeles ceremony

Objects ranging from the 1st century to the 15th century were handed over at the Mexican consulate in Los Angeles earlier this month

Funerary urn dedicated to the Maya god of corn discovered in Mexico

The artefact is the latest archaeological marvel unearthed during the construction of the controversial Maya Train project

Hidden burial chamber discovered at Tulum Maya site in Mexico

The cavern’s entrance had been concealed by a boulder that appears to have pinned an unfortunate person to the spot when it was installed

Mexico’s Maya Train finally leaves the station after years of delays and tripling of costs

The rail network connecting archaeological sites and tourist destinations on the Yucatán peninsula is one of president Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s legacy projects

Border Biennial showcases art across the Texas-Mexico border

It’s the first physical iteration of the El Paso and Juárez exhibition in five years, after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the 2020 edition

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Inaugural $100,000 Sfer Ik Award will support creation of AI-powered habitat for bats

The winning artist, Antoine Bertin, will develop "The Bat Cloud" during a two-month residency in the Mayan jungle

German authorities repatriate 75 ancient artefacts to Mexico

All but one of the items were voluntarily handed over by the Museum Schloss Salder in Salzgitter

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Mexico’s $28bn Maya Train puts 25,000 historic sites at risk

Many organisations, including Unesco, fear the project will negatively affect the region’s cultural heritage, natural environment and residents when it opens in December

California museum returns nearly 1,300 pre-Columbian artefacts to Mexico

The repatriation ceremony at the San Bernardino County Museum was timed to coincide with the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month in the US and Mexican Independence Day

Archaeologists discover ancient Maya necklace made from conch shell

The delicately carved choker necklace was found during excavations for the Maya Train project in the Yucatán Peninsula

Mexico’s Sfer Ik launches $100,000 award to support creation of AI art project

The Tulum-based art space is putting out an open call, with the winner receiving cash and a two-month residency

Intricate Maya nose ornament made of human bone discovered in Mexico

Archaeologists at the pre-Hispanic site of Palenque discovered the finely carved artefact, believed to be at least 1,100 years old

US returns almost 100 stolen pre-Hispanic artefacts to Mexico

They had been smuggled into the US after a 2008 museum heist