Mexican pyramids are a key feature of ancient Mesoamerican architecture. While they share some similarities with Egyptian pyramids, these structures have flat tops, often with temples built on them, ...

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an 800-year-old Aztec pyramid in the heart of Mexico City that could show the ancient city is at least a century older than previously thought.

Templo Mayor, also known as the Great Temple, was a massive, pyramid-shaped structure ... by Indigenous people in central Mexico — was an important symbol in Aztec culture.

A corner of the Old Palace of the Counts of Santiago de Calimaya, today the Museum of Mexico City, features a snake carving that once graced an Aztec pyramid. A shrine to Ehecatl, a Mesoamerican ...

MEXICO CITY, Nov 24 (Reuters) - An extensive cache of Aztec ritual offerings found underneath downtown Mexico City, off the steps of what would have been the empire's holiest shrine, provides new ...

On the edge of Mexico City's famed Zócalo plaza, next to the ruins of the Aztec sacred pyramid known as the Templo Mayor, the remains of an animal—perhaps a dog or a wolf—were discovered.

Archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a dwelling that was built up to 800 years ago during the Aztec Empire in the Centro neighborhood of Mexico City, Mexico, during works to modernize the area.

Archaeologists in southern Mexico announced Monday they have discovered a 2,700-year-old tomb of a dignitary inside a pyramid that may be the oldest such burial documented in Mesoamerica.

Two pyramids in Mexico used by an ancient tribe for human ... a bloodthirsty tribe that defeated the Aztecs. Historians say the ancient Purepecha tribe used the Yacata pyramids for human ...