Melissa underwent extreme rapid intensification, strengthening to a rare Category 5 with winds of 175 mph and stronger gusts, making it the strongest storm on the planet this year. Follow for live ...

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OCT. 8 is a significant day not only for history students and scholars but for all Filipinos. It is the day we celebrate “Dia del Galeón” (Day of the Galleon) to recognize the importance of the ...

Ancient hieroglyphics discovered in Mexico have revealed the identity of a long-forgotten Mayan ruler. The inscription — chiseled into a large stone — was unearthed last year in the jungle of the ...

Alejandro Kirk grew up in Tijuana, Mexico, roughly a 2 1/2-hour drive south of Dodger Stadium, where late Mexican icon ...

Researchers have determined the age and origin of a massive tree that was found at the pre-Columbian city of Cahokia in what ...

The CEO of the nonprofit managing the Alamo resigned after a powerful Republican state official criticized her publicly, ...

Mayan language experts have decoded the name of a previously unknown Maya queen on a stone inscription discovered last year.

For centuries, explorers set sail toward lands that never existed, climbed mountains that were never there, and searched for ...

Locals called it the “Corral de Piedra” or the “Ciudad Antigua,” the set of abandoned structures dotting a hillside in Guerrero, Mexico. The ruins were overgrown, yes, though not exactly hidden. Even ...

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Thanks to Hollywood films, Day of the Dead has evolved from a Mexican holiday to an international one celebrated by all of ...