The National Museum of Anthropology (MNA) in Mexico City has won the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Concord.

Long before it became Mexico’s most beloved salamander, it was believed to be the embodiment of the Aztec god of fire ... In their main stronghold, Lake Xochimilco, located in the southern ...

Lake Xochimilco is the creatures’ only remaining ... They hold significance both in modern medicine and in Aztec mythology. The creatures are associated with Xolotl, the Aztec god of fire ...

Aztec legend has it that the creature is a ... "I feel that we have hope for humanity." The wetlands of Xochimilco used to teem with axolotls, but they have been almost wiped out by pollution ...

The figures tell it best. In 1998 there were 6,000 axolotls per square kilometer in their natural habitat, the district of Xochimilco in the south of Mexico City. By 2004, that figure had fallen ...

Residents of Xochimilco created chinampas by building rafts from branches layered with mud. The practice may originate with all cultures like the Toltecs, but by the height of the Aztec empire ...

Xochimilco is known for its Aztec-era canals and floating gardens.But pollution and urban expansion now threaten this fragile ecosystem.Despite a city-wide plastic ban, bottles and bags still ...

Its exhibitions focus on the axolotl and chinampas, the pre-Hispanic agricultural systems resembling floating gardens that still function in Xochimilco ... of rain in the Aztec worldview ...

A figure of an axolotl sits on display at a museum in Xochimilco Ecological Park ... as did Tláloc — god of rain in the Aztec worldview — or Coyolxauhqui — its lunar goddess — but ...

True, axolotls sometimes made their way into Aztec meals (they are fatty and ... consigning the axolotls to Xochimilco, the one neighbourhood where the old waterways survived.

Cassandra Garduno cuts Mexican marigold flowers known as cempasuchil she grew in her floating garden (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) From ...