(26.06.17) As part of the year of Germany in Mexico, the regional DAAD branch organised a symposium on the subject of archaeology in the Goethe-Institut in Mexico City. This country was home to some of the world's oldest and most highly developed civilisations, and is also the site of the 66 million-year-old meteor crater thought to be responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. It therefore comes as no surprise that Mexico offers a diverse and very interesting environment for archaeological research.