Mexico Mayan site fears becoming victim of success
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Mexico&#39;s most famous Mayan ruins, at Chichen Itza, could become a victim of their own success if they are named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in a global competition.
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The Mexican cement tycoon overpays in a quest for growth.
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By Dennis Lien, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 25--It's one of the oldest historical sites in Minnesota. But that doesn't mean folks are lining up to own it.   A decade after the federal government closed the U.S.
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LIMA, Peru  - While workers at Peru's huge Camisea  energy project were busy laying the high-tech gas pipeline from  the southern jungle to Lima earlier this year, archeologists in  the area were marveling at something a little less  state-of-the-art: ceramics.
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Mexican archaeologists have found what may be the most significant Aztec ruin in decades, with the unearthing of an altar and a monolith in the busy heart of Mexico City, Mayor Alejandro Encinas said on Wednesday.
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Carlos Chex knows well the struggle of indigenous tribes to control their land, resources and destiny &#151; a battle his fellow Mayans in Guatemala have fought for years.
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Chinese are proud a global poll has named the Great Wall a wonder of the world, but some worry that tourism and neglect are destroying the crumbling fortification designed to defend against foreign invaders.
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Historians of the Stone Age fear that they will have to rip up their theories about Neanderthal Man after doubt has been cast on the carbon dating of skeletons by a leading German anthropologist.
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A study challenges a theory that abrupt and catastrophic climate change extinguished the last Neanderthals.
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NEBAJ, Guatemala -- A decade after the conclusion of the long civil war that ravaged this Central American nation, Guatemalans are literally trying to dig up their past.
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By MARK STEVENSON  MEXICO CITY - There is a "high possibility" a huge underground drainage tunnel could soon fail, flooding parts of this mountain-ringed metropolis 15 feet deep in sewage, the national water agency said Tuesday.
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Some of the world's most treasured destinations are in peril. Many are being trashed by mass tourism, with an assist from indifferent government policies and greedy developers. Among them:  _Easter Island.
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A monthlong festival called MexicoNow has highlighted the challenges of defining cultural identity.
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MEXICO CITY, Feb. 2 -- Teams of investigators and archaeological specialists searched the site of a former military base in western Mexico on Saturday for remains of victims of Mexico's "dirty war."
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Archaeologists have recovered more than 1,000 artifacts at sites being prepared for the 2008 Olympics, but elsewhere in China, they are often in a losing race against bulldozers.
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FELIPE CARRILLO PUERTO, Mexico  - In a land of  pyramids and jungle temples, one of Mexico's most curious and  elusive artifacts is an old wooden cross said to have spoken to  Mayan Indians and roused them to rebellion.
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LA INDIA, Nicaragua  - In a dim and dangerous  tunnel lit only by the flicker of candles, Juan Laguna and four  other children toil with rusty pick-axes to loosen chunks of  rock they hope will yield at least a little bit of gold.