A striking 600-year-old Aztec sculpture depicting a golden ... Artists created the bas-relief — a type of sculpture with raised images carved out of a stone background — in the mid-15th ...

Stephen Graham of 'Adolescence' says research took its co-writer down 'a lot of dark holes' ...

Statues and carvings of Xipe Totec have turned up at ... which suggests that it was built before the rise of Aztec culture. A team led by archaeologist Noemí Castillo Tejero excavated the ...

Eagles are enduring symbols in Aztec lore. Mirsa Islas / INAH ... from the Templo Mayor Project unearthed the sculpture last February. The eagle—carved out of tezontle, a reddish volcanic ...

The Aztec Empire may have ended centuries ago, but its presence is far from gone. It lingers in temple ruins, place names, and bits of language and folklore. Walk through Mexico City nowadays, and you ...

A stone block unearthed in Mexico and covered in carved patterns is thought to be ... which may have laid the foundations for the future Mayan and Aztec empires. An international team of ...

Here, the Olmec focus on the mountain as a provider of wealth and sustenance, portrayed in several sculptures as a cave. Even before Olmec times, the idea of fertile caves was shown as a four-lobed ...

is one of several turquoise objects that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés likely took from the Aztec Empire as treasure in the early 16th century. The mask was carved out of Spanish cedar ...

An extremely important 1-ton sculpture, sometimes referred ... continued even into the 16th century with the Aztec. The most famous Olmec bedrock carving at Chalcatzingo is called Monument 1 ...

More than 2,000 years later, the Aztecs were producing large stone sculptures that often ... Urbe and Martin Nieto Uribe work on a carved replica of the Aztec Sun Stone, which dates to between ...