The study “A Teotihuacan altar at Tikal, Guatemala: central Mexican ritual and elite interaction in the Maya Lowlands” appears in Antiquity (Volume 99, Issue 404, pages 462-480), published in ...

Your Day of the Dead Altar can be an amazing way to celebrate Dia de Los Muertos this Fall. Honor your relatives with this truly authentic Mexican tradition. Día de los Muertos Altar at the ...

The altar paid tribute to David Alfaro Siqueiros, a Mexican muralist who died in 1974. Every year, the institute picks a figure to honor with its ofrenda, and this year Quiroz chose an unusual one.

Mexican authorities have found dozens of human skulls, bones and even a fetus in a glass jar next to an altar in the den of suspected drug traffickers. Prosecutors in Mexico City said 42 skulls, 40… ...

Since the altar is the “heart and soul” of what Día de los Muertos is all about, it's important to include traditional elements like candles, papel picado, a beverage, or food, Jimenez shared.

NEW YORK. The traditional altar of the Day of the Dead arrived Friday (Oct. 29) at Rockefeller Center in New York, one of the most emblematic places in the city that this year, instead of paying ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult “La Santa Muerte” was gunned down at an altar to the skeletal figure late Friday, authorities said.

Creating an altar has become a collective expression of grief and love. Many here in the U.S. and across the Mexican diaspora are unable to go back to Mexico to be with their loved ones as they ...

10 bodies found in Acapulco, Mexico, amid cartel violence 04:06. A local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult "La Santa Muerte" was gunned down at an altar to the skeletal figure late Friday ...

Trayvon Martin. A Paraguayan truck driver and his seamstress wife. Jeff West. A Mexican immigrant. John Philp Thompson. Whether they were well-known in their communities or only to their families ...