The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a collection of remarkable architectural achievements, have long captivated the ...

Food from these islands has fed people for hundreds of years, but the chinampas are under threat from urbanization. The ...

The gardens crisscrossed by canals in the capital's southern Xochimilco borough are built up from layers of dredged soil, held together by tall, thin ahuejotes — a kind of willow tree ...

PHOTOS: Mexico City’s floating gardens have fed people for hundreds of years. Now they’re threatened Garduño’s earliest memories of her family’s chinampa came from peering through her ...

Mexico City's chinampas, artificial islands first built by the Aztecs hundreds of years ago, are under threat from encroaching urbanization MEXICO CITY -- Cassandra Garduño squinted in the ...

Photograph by Granger Collection/Age Fotostock Babylon was famous for its Hanging Gardens, which some believe may have actually been in the Assyrian capital, Nineveh, where this relief ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Cassandra Garduño squinted in the sunlight, her pink boots smudged by dirt as she gazed out over her family's chinampa — one of the islands first built up by the Aztecs ...

Small ancestral floating gardens are visible next to new soccer fields on the Xochimilco Lake in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. Credit: AP/Felix Marquez When her ...