The Aztecs, one of the most intriguing and sophisticated civilizations to have ever existed, left an indelible mark on Mexico’s cultural and historical landscape. Before their dramatic fall to Spanish ...

Archeologists have discovered the ruins of an 800-year-old Aztec pyramid in the heart of the Mexican capital that could show the ancient city is at least a century older than previously thought.

In a sense, 1521 is Mexico's 1619. A foundational moment that for centuries has been shaped by just one perspective: a European one. The story of how Hernán Cortés and a few hundred Spaniards ...

In a sense, 1521 is Mexico's 1619. A foundational moment that has for a long time been shaped by just one perspective, a European one. The story of how Hernán Cortés and his small army of ...

The Aztec Empire once hosted an expansive trade network that brought volcanic glass to its capital from right across Mesoamerica, coast to coast. The largest compositional study of obsidian artifacts ...

Before the Spanish arrived in what’s now Mexico City, the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán was an architectural marvel teeming with vitality. It was a city built atop an island surrounded by a network of ...

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 photograph of the ruins of Huēyi Teōcalli with the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral in the background. (David Moran/Flickr) The replica stands in the city’s main square, just steps from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A replica of the Templo Mayor pyramid, with a projection telling the 500-year-old story of the resistance of Mexico-Tenochtitlan ...