Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec Empire, was founded in 1325. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Images: Public domain and Txllxt TxllxT via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 As early as ...

The placement of every excavated object appeared to be governed by an exquisite logic, re-creating the Aztec Empire's entire cosmology. It was at the very bottom of the second offering box that ...

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

Aztec society, whose powerful empire stretched over what is now southern Mexico from the 14th through 16th centuries, was suffused with religious customs. It was also highly practical and had ...

Every time an ad agency or web designer got involved in the exhibit before it opened last October, Brumfiel and fellow Chicago curator Gary Feinman of the Field Museum witnessed excitement about ...

Between 1345 and 1521 C.E., the Aztec Empire flourished in what is now central and southern Mexico. The Aztecs were highly advanced in agriculture and trade, largely thanks to an elite group of ...

the patron of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. The Aztecs were a group of Nahuatl-speaking peoples that dominated large parts of central Mexico from the 14th to the 16th centuries. Their empire was ...

The palace was also used as the home of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés after the fall of the Aztec empire. Excavators have found evidence of the home Cortés had at the palace site.

A turquoise-encrusted wooden mask from the Aztec civilization Where it is from: Somewhere in Mesoamerica When it was made: ...

Off the coast of Mexico, scientists have observed a pod of killer whales adapting new skills to help them hunt these docile ...