Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, a celebrated Mexican archaeologist who led the excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, won this year’s Princess of Asturias award in the social sciences category, ...

Eagles are enduring symbols in Aztec lore. Mirsa Islas / INAH Archaeologists conducting excavations at the Templo Mayor, or Great Temple, in Mexico City (once home to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán ...

The treasure trove of Aztec artifacts was found on the steps of the Temple Mayor, the main temple, and most sacred of the Mexica peoples in their capital city of Tenochtitlan, in what is now Mexico ...

A team of researcher unearthed what could be the largest collection of pre-Colombian skulls ever found in a once-sacred temple. The finding reveals new ways the pre-Colombian civilization used skulls ...

Five-hundred years ago, two men met and changed much of the world forever. About 500 Spanish conquistadors — ragged from skirmishes, a massacre of an Indigenous village and a hike between massive ...

Mexico is building a towering replica of the Templo Mayor, the Aztec civilisation's most sacred site, in the downtown of Mexico City to mark 500 years since the Spanish conquest of the Aztec capital, ...

> 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 ...

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