Día de los Muertos, Day of the Dead, is here. Here's what to know.

Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, which happens this weekend, is celebrated in communities across the U.S. The ...
Paso Robles Daily News

Central Coast Zoo celebrates Dia de Los Muertos Saturday

Event featured art projects, student activities, and native species – First Five hosted Dia De Los Muertos on Saturday at the ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN

Deep in the Amazon, an Almost-Perfect Pyramid Just Appeared on Satellite Maps—Refusing to Explain Itself to Science

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, near the border with Brazil, a striking landform has stirred scientific curiosity and cultural ...
Tyler Morning Telegraph

Grant: Significance of marigolds on Day of the Dead

I grew up in the Catholic church and with a Nov. 1 birthday always knew about All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day. But it wasn’t until I lived in San Antonio that I knew about the connection between ...

Juárez nursery recuperates Día de los Muertos traditions with cempasúchil flowers

For centuries the cempasúchil, or the Mexican marigold, have been used on the Día de los Muertos. A nursery in Juáres ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

This Inca Building—the Only Surviving Structure of Its Kind—Might Have Been Designed to Amplify Sound and Music

Researchers will use 3D modeling to assess what the "carpa uasi" in Huaytará, Peru, originally looked like and how sound ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

TASTY TAMALES:ANCIENT DISH FROM PRE-COLUMBIAN MEXICO IS WELL WORTH THE TIME AND EFFORT TO MAKE

In pre-Columbian Mexico, women invented tamales as a portable, satisfying food to feed the roaming armies of the Aztec, Mayan and Incan tribes. But this ancient form of ''take-out'' is also one of ...

Penn Museum Celebrates the Day of the Dead with CultureFest! Día de los Muertos

In partnership with the Mexican Cultural Center, The Penn Museum will showcase Mexico’s vibrant cultural traditions with ...