Scientists suggest the monkey may have been a diplomatic gift to Teotihuacan from Maya leaders in a period when relations between the increasingly powerful city and surrounding regions in ...

Sugiyama and her colleagues say the ill-fated monkey was probably part of a gift to the Teotihuacan’s rulers from a neighboring Maya kingdom. And although the monkey was captured and brought to ...

The remains of a 1,700-year-old monkey found in the ancient city of Teotihuacan outside modern-day Mexico City suggest the primate was a diplomatic gift from the Maya. The find is the earliest ...

Seventeen hundred years ago, a female spider monkey was presented as a treasured ... compared the offering made by Maya elites to Teotihuacan to China’s panda diplomacy that accompanied the ...