The sacrifice of at least 42 children in Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, was an effort to calm the anger of the Aztec rain god ...

The Mexican National College presents new findings on the 15th-century climate crisis that led to the sacrifice of 42 ...

When my crew and I started excavating Calixtlahuaca -- an Aztec city-state capital near the modern-day city of Toluca in central Mexico -- I knew our findings might help answer questions of the past.

The remains, mostly boys aged between two and seven years old, were placed inside a box of ashlars in a careful arrangement.

Matzah ball soup is also known as the "Jewish penicillin." Whenever I am sick, that is what friends would tell me. “All you ...

The mass execution of children was seen as not only a way to calm the rain god, but for a time it helped the community deal ...

Stephen Kane told Newsweek: "If it was me as a kid, I will have told this story a million times growing up especially having friends to confirm my story!" ...