The cenotes of Mexico are famous not only for their beauty, but for the archaeological finds they reveal.

MEXICO CITY — A prehistoric skeleton has been found in an intricate underwater cave system along Mexico’s Caribbean coast, an area that flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, ...

Researchers have long considered these cave systems valuable archaeological archives. The latest discovery is part of a ...

The cavers reported the find to local archaeologists who were then led back into the cave. Mexico National Institute of Anthropology and History The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI ...

An 8,000-year-old skeleton discovered deep within a flooded cave system on Mexico's Caribbean coast is shedding new light on the prehistoric inhabitants of the Yucatán Peninsula. The remains, found by ...

In the Guerrero mountains of southern Mexico, young cave guide Adrián Beltrán Dimas met up with Yekaterina Katiya Pavlova in the fall of 2023. Pavlova is a Russian speleologist, or a scientist ...

Archaeologists discovered 8,000-year-old human remains in an underwater cenote cave in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.

A young cave guide and a cave researcher on a mapping project discovered ancient artifacts in a hidden room, archaeologists said. Mexico National Institute of Anthropology and History In the Guerrero ...