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 significance of Mictlan resides in the difficulty of its trip, which reflects the Aztec conception of the afterlife and the interaction of cosmic forces. Upon a person’s passing, if they are ...

She often has her skin peeled back, revealing a skeleton jaw. She was apparently born and then sacrificed when she was an infant. Aztec depictions of this underworld deity tend to be salient. Her ...

The altar dates back to the time after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán. Experts say it was located in a courtyard inside a home of an Aztec family, who would have used it ...

Archaeologists have excavated more sections of an extraordinary Aztec tower of human skulls under the centre of Mexico City. Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH ...