Aztec god of the sun, war and human sacrifice. In a typical ritual, sacrificial victims would be taken to the top of the temple where four priests would lay them down on a stone slab.

Archaeologists have unearthed skeletons of a sacrificed boy dressed as the Aztec war god Huitzilopochtli, a stone box with that god’s emblem containing a sacrificed jaguar and a set of flint ...

The five-metre tower was discovered during the restoration of a building in Mexico City and is believed to be part of a "skull rack" from the temple to the Aztec god of the sun, war and human ...

Archaeologists have unearthed skeletons of a sacrificed boy dressed as the Aztec war god Huitzilopochtli, a stone box with that god’s emblem containing a sacrificed jaguar and a set of flint ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) – In the pantheon of Mexico's pre-Hispanic gods, most Aztec deities are depicted as brutal, blood-thirsty beings only appeased by human sacrifices. But Mexico's Templo Mayor ...

Xiuhtecuhtli, whose name means "turquoise lord" in the Nahuatl language, was the Aztec "new fire" god. The Aztecs kept a "holy fire" continuously burning in the Fire Temple at Tenochtitlan ...

The approved version was the fourth draft of a curriculum in development for over four years ... and called on students to appeal to the Aztec gods, “including the god of human sacrifice.” ...

Visitors to Melbourne Museum's newest exhibition Aztecs will get the opportunity to lay their eyes on artefacts intended only for Aztec gods. A rare 600-year-old Aztec ceramic vessel will feature ...