Someone attempted to dislodge a drawing of a hand from a rock with more than 150 motifs dating back thousands of years

Highway road work has uncovered an ancient civilisation’s ceremonial centrepiece

The artefact had been recovered from a US gallery in 2017, but since then its status was a mystery

The trove of 30 Mesoamerican objects includes a ceremonial trophy for the first ball game

Recent episodes of censorship at two of the city’s leading art museums have laid bare the rifts between artists, institutions and their publics

Research team uncovers settlement hidden for centuries using laser mapping technology

The house will be a research centre instead, allegedly due to a labour struggle at the university that owns it

The inaugural Frontera Culture Fund will contribute to 32 arts and community organisations

The work by Teresa Margolles is made up of casts of the faces of 726 trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people from the UK and Mexico

Authorities said that significant precipitation amid a severe drought had undermined the Purépecha structure at Ihuatzio

Archaeologists have used light-detection and ranging (Lidar) technology to uncover new findings about ancient Maya Lowland settlements

Local authorities respond that mummy deterioration is not new and even inevitable given a history of visitors “touching them or taking souvenirs, such as bits of clothing”

Objects ranging from the 1st century to the 15th century were handed over at the Mexican consulate in Los Angeles earlier this month

The artefact is the latest archaeological marvel unearthed during the construction of the controversial Maya Train project

The cavern’s entrance had been concealed by a boulder that appears to have pinned an unfortunate person to the spot when it was installed

The rail network connecting archaeological sites and tourist destinations on the Yucatán peninsula is one of president Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s legacy projects

It’s the first physical iteration of the El Paso and Juárez exhibition in five years, after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the 2020 edition

The winning artist, Antoine Bertin, will develop "The Bat Cloud" during a two-month residency in the Mayan jungle

All but one of the items were voluntarily handed over by the Museum Schloss Salder in Salzgitter

Many organisations, including Unesco, fear the project will negatively affect the region’s cultural heritage, natural environment and residents when it opens in December

The repatriation ceremony at the San Bernardino County Museum was timed to coincide with the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month in the US and Mexican Independence Day

The delicately carved choker necklace was found during excavations for the Maya Train project in the Yucatán Peninsula

The Tulum-based art space is putting out an open call, with the winner receiving cash and a two-month residency

Archaeologists at the pre-Hispanic site of Palenque discovered the finely carved artefact, believed to be at least 1,100 years old

They had been smuggled into the US after a 2008 museum heist

The clay archaeological marvel, which was recovered thanks to a Texan artist, is believed to be more than 1,300 years old

A skull relief carving hailing from the ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá has been repatriated

An auction house in Austria intended to sell the artefact before officials stepped in, according to the Mexican government

The 65 heritage objects in question include a glass with a clay pedestal dating from the Mesoamerican Classic period and a ceramic bowl dating from 200CE

Some 30 objects in an auction this week are protected by Mexico’s cultural heritage laws, authorities there say