"As we go deeper we think we'll continue finding very rich objects." Pre-Aztec 'Flayed god' temple uncovered in Mexico Aztec human skull tower uncovered Timeline: History of Mexico Discovered off ...

What happens when the rain stops? For the Aztec community in the Basin of Mexico in the mid-15th century, a two-year drought drove them to seek help from the supernatural — and to sacrifice ...

Ruins of Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan in Mexico City. Clockwise from top left ... remarkably well-preserved collection of 2,550 wooden artifacts unearthed by a team of archaeologists led by ...

"Thanks to her, we now have rich information about the rural provinces that fell under the control of the great urban concentrations [of the Aztec empire]," says Leonardo López Luján, senior ...

Deep within Mexico’s archaeological treasures lies a haunting instrument whose true psychological impact is only now being ...

The mysterious Aztec "death whistles" have fascinated researchers with their eerie, terrifying effect they have on the ...

3D paintings featuring a giant feathered serpent, a bronzed Aztec warrior and a colorful painting of a Mexican hairless dog surround the pre-Columbian artifacts in the gallery — drawing from ...

Archaeologists unearthed the first Aztec death whistles, also known as ehecachichtlis, in 1999 while excavating the ...

The battle of Tenochtitlán is seen as the beginning of the end of the Aztec empire, which in its heyday ruled over the central Mexican highlands. The archaeologists behind the discovery say that ...