When the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men arrived in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán in 1521, they described witnessing a grisly ceremony. Aztec priests, using obsidian blades, sliced ...

Unearthed in 1790, the Aztec Calendar Stone is one of the most impressive artifacts recovered from the advanced civilization that ruled central Mexico for centuries, but it’s not actually a calendar.

Eagle warriors of the Aztec Empire face off against Spanish conquistadors in a clash that shapes history - discover the brutal truth behind La Noche Triste’s bloody battles. In this gripping episode, ...

For a long time, scholars have thought that the Aztecs had frequent contact with groups in what's now the American Southwest. But a new chemical analysis of ancient turquoise artifacts just put a ...

During ritual ceremonies, the ancient Aztec civilization used a "death whistle" — a haunting instrument shaped like a human skull. Its eerie, high-pitched scream is not just a product of its unique ...

When the Spanish began their conquest of Mexico in the sixteenth century, they encountered the Aztec Empire, a large and sophisticated civilization. The Aztec empire was not particularly ancient—the ...

Aztec writing sometimes used different colours to refine a word's meaning: This page is from an early 16th century book about Aztec imperial taxation, the Matricula de Tributos, now in the National ...

Previously published in two separate volumes, The lost history of Aztec & Maya and The Aztec & Maya : life in an ancient civilization. ANTHREF copy 39088019656735 gift from Paul R. Julian. Aztec & ...

A giant temple to the Aztec god of the wind and a court where the Aztecs played a deadly ball game have been discovered in the heart of Mexico City. Archaeologists unveiled the rare finds Wednesday ...

Its fear-splitting screech reverberates throughout space and time. Swiss and Norwegian neuroscientists have discovered that the ancient Aztec death whistle — often credited with emitting the scariest ...

Ancient Aztec and Chinese calendar systems share so many similarities, it is unlikely they developed independently, according to the late David H. Kelley, whose paper on the subject was published ...