The Aztec Empire may have ended centuries ago, but its presence is far from gone. It lingers in temple ruins, place names, ...

Archaeologists found that while the Mexica primarily used green obsidian, obsidian also came from at least seven other ...

This story appears in the November 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the edge of Mexico City's famed Zócalo plaza, next to the ruins of the Aztec sacred pyramid known as the Templo ...

For this reason, our warriors were on guard at the Eagle Gate. The sentries from Tenochtitlan ... The Brohen Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (Boston: Beacon Press, 1962), pp. 64­66 ...

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.

While researching Mexico I learned about the Aztecs and their ... From the empire line the dress cascades in tiers of steps, like the ancient Aztec pyramids made of stone. The back of the dress ...

It is one of the best-preserved examples of pre-conquest Aztec-style writing that exists, after Catholic authorities in colonial-era Mexico dismissed such codices as the work of the devil and ...