The Aztec Empire once hosted an expansive trade network that brought volcanic glass to its capital from right across Mesoamerica, coast to coast. The largest compositional study of obsidian artifacts ...

As its name suggests, an Aztec death whistle can make a most dreadful sound. But the effect depends on how it's played, explains musicologist and archaeologist Arnd Adje Both of the Free University of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A tattered piece of bark paper with illustrations on it. Centuries-old codices from what is now Mexico hold a wealth of knowledge ...

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Toward the end of 1519, Spanish explorers arrived at the Aztec capital in what is now Mexico City. They were awed by the Aztecs' sophistication and soon demanded the land and resources for themselves.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A tower of human skulls unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City has raised new questions about the culture of sacrifice in the Aztec Empire after crania of women and ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Walking for hours through the gritty streets in the center of Mexico City, you can hear the daily urban soundtrack: Car engines, the call of the man who buys scrap metal and the ...

In the Florentine Codex, missionary Bernardino de Sahagún famously documented the existence of the “House of the Beasts” in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. In another Spanish account, Conquistador ...