Archaeologists in Mexico have found 119 more human skulls in a grisly Aztec "tower of skulls." Some 484 skulls had previously been found at the tower, according to Mexico’s National Institute of ...

History buffs can learn forgotten secrets of Aztec society in the new two-hour special Lost Pyramids of the Aztecs, premiering tonight, June 28, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Science Channel. You can also stream ...

> To honor the spring god Xipe, Aztec priests flayed human beings and clad themselves in the tattered hides. This symbolized the new vegetation in which the earth clothes itself. > To honor the fire ...

MEXICO CITY – Mexican archaeologists say they have found an unprecedented human burial in which the skeleton of a young woman is surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones in Mexico City's Templo Mayor.

At the height of their power, the Aztec Empire supported a population of up to 3 million in the Valley of Mexico, and many of their largest cities had populations exceeding 100,000. This was not easy, ...

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.

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