Historic Yucatan

25 original documents, published during the visit of former president Porfirio Díaz Mori to Mérida in 1906, will be on display startng…

Since many rural communities in Yucatán depend on the cultivation and harvesting of corn, honey and other basic products, different organizations conformed…

Corn and honey production in the Yucatan peninsula has a historical importance for the local communities, especially in the south of the…

Built 373 years ago, according to the date of registration on the main access door, the Hermitage of Tekax (Ermita de Tekax),…

Within the framework of the activities of the International Image Festival (FINI), the photographer and editor Alberto Tovalín presented the book Fotografía…

Catemaco, in the state of Veracruz, is known throughout the world as a center for witchcraft and, to the dismay of some…

Africans, Afro-descendants and pardos (descendants of Maya and Africans), lived in Yucatan during the Spanish colony under the regime of slavery, as…

“Surprising History in Yucatán” appeared as a series of monthly articles in The Yucatan Times.  The stories attracted more than 50,000 readers…

The IV Week of the History of Yucatan took place at historic Escuela Modelo on March 2018, including conferences with invited specialists, in…

“To know our history is to know ourselves” said Luis H. Rosado Baeza during the presentation of his book “La Cruz y…