A vast array of skulls buried beneath the streets of modern Mexico City are revealing the grisly details of Aztec human sacrifice. The area was once the epicenter of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan - a ...

Archaeologists have made a grisly discovery in Mexico City that could lead to the first-ever Aztec royal tomb, according to Reuters. Experts found an array of sacrificial remains during an excavation ...

At the height of their power, the Aztec Empire supported a population of up to 3 million in the Valley of Mexico, and many of their largest cities had populations exceeding 100,000. This was not easy, ...

> To honor the spring god Xipe, Aztec priests flayed human beings and clad themselves in the tattered hides. This symbolized the new vegetation in which the earth clothes itself. > To honor the fire ...

Aztec priests at Tenochtitlán offered a whole galaxy of starfish to the war god Huitzilopochtli 700 years ago, along with a trove of other objects from the distant edges of the Aztec Empire.

A story about the ancient civilization in the region of Mexico, set to face South Korea in the second match of the 2018 Russia World Cup qualifiers on the 23rd, graced the cover of the journal ...

Science Channel is to premiere the two-hour documentary special Lost Pyramids of The Aztecs later this June. Produced by Windfall Films, the one-off special will provide “unprecedented access” into ...

As far as tax collectors in colonial Mexico went, Gonzalo de Salazar, often dubbed “El Gordo,” was a 16th-century pinchpenny. The conquistador-turned-regional-chief demanded steep tributes from his ...