The Aztec civilization may have peaked more than 500 years ago, but all the Aztec gods and goddesses remain ... him to ...
When the Tlaltecuhtli monolith was found, López Luján noticed that the god depicted held ... It would fall to the eighth Aztec ruler, Ahuitzotl, to stretch the empire to its breaking point.
The sacrifice of at least 42 children in Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, was an effort to calm the anger of the Aztec rain god ...
Some will shock you, while others will delight you. The Aztec Empire was full of interesting daily tidbits that we never learned about in school.
Spanish forces and their Indigenous allies captured Tenochtitlán in 1521, bringing the Aztec Empire’s reign to a close after less than a century. The White House, whose cornerstone was laid in 1792, ...
They state that Moctezuma saw Cortés as an incarnation of the god Quetzalcoatl ... It is a document of the Aztec Empire at the height of its artistic, religious and political power.
Aztec society, whose powerful empire stretched over what ... where a wet-nurse tree would feed them with its milk. There they would remain, until the gods sent them back to be born of another ...
For the Aztec community in the Basin of Mexico in the mid-15th century ... The sculptures imitated the face of Tlaloc, the ...
It is believed to be part of a skull rack from the temple to the Aztec god of the sun ... Mexico from the 14th to the 16th centuries. Their empire was overthrown by invaders led by the Spanish ...
The battle of Tenochtitlán is seen as the beginning of the end of the Aztec empire, which in its heyday ruled over the central Mexican highlands. The archaeologists behind the discovery say that ...