The Aztec chose to express their ingenuity largely in the epicenter of Tenochtitlan. Yet the great city was in many ways a repository of customs, images, and spiritual practices borrowed from ...

Gato K. Rivera shared this amazing photo of a celebration held in honor of muralist Raymond Patlán, who died this year. "He ...

Hygiene and ritual marked every moment of life for pregnant Aztec women. The tlamatlquiticitl—midwife—offered those in her charge a remarkable 16th-century birthing plan, combining practical ...

A newly discovered trove of Aztec sacrifices could lead archaeologists to an elusive Aztec emperor's tomb. Such a discovery would mark a first since no Aztec royal burial has yet been found ...

For the next 500 years, the skulls lay undisturbed underneath what was once the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, but is now Mexico City. Until, that is, a group of archaeologists began the painstaking ...

The international team of scientists, led by Dr. Ken-ichi Tadaki from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, that discovered COSMOS-AzTEC-1 published their findings in Nature on Wednesday ...