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.

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

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, ...

According to legend, Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl was the incumbent lord of Tula, capital of the Toltec Empire, near the time of its fall, around 1170 CE. Topiltzin’s reign was sabotaged by the devotees of ...

Cempasúchil, Day of the Dead's iconic flower, adorns altars to deceased loved ones. Its uses stretch back to pre-Hispanic ...

McDonald's is investing $100 million to bring customers back to stores after an outbreak of E. coli food poisoning tied to ...

Yet despite this overwhelming juggernaut, the empire’s expansion was stopped dead in its tracks by three civilizations that still have strong traditions of fierce independence today.

Some maintain that Day of the Dead practices are directly descended from the Aztec empire in Central Mexico ... including a celebration to honor Mixcóatl, the god of war, that was held between ...