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Mexico’s flower of the dead: The cempasúchil
I heard the legend as a child: Xóchitl and Huitzilin met as children. They grew up and played together for…
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Archaeological Sites in Mexico City You Must Visit
In convoluted CDMX, it is not uncommon to find archaeological sites right beside a Catholic cathedral. As devotees attend their…
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Which world museums have Mexican artifacts?
In 2015, Germany returned two 3,000-year-old Olmec wooden statues to Mexico. They had been seized from a dubious Costa Rican…
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Aztec Rhapsodies: Mexico’s first conquista epic
Throughout history, a few gifted souls have managed to turn momentous events into epic poems. We have the Iliad, the…
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