Archaeologists working at the Templo Mayor site in Mexico City have recovered a ritual deposit containing stone figurines and ...
Archaeologists excavating beneath downtown Mexico City have uncovered the stone remains of an Aztec temple and ball court, ...
A humble charcoal inscription discovered on a Pompeii wall has rewritten history. Previously believed to have erupted in ...
An electrical works project led archaeologists to uncover this Aztec-era dwelling. Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) It was supposed to be a routine job in the center of ...
A note on spelling and translations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Water and the sacred city -- Chapter 3: The Tlatoani in Tenochtitlan -- Chapter 4: The city in the conquest's wake -- ...
Sometime after Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan in modern-day Mexico City in 1521, an indigenous household that survived the bloody Spanish invasion arranged an altar ...
Archaeologists in Mexico City have found an altar dated to the decades after Spain’s 1521 conquest of the Aztec Empire’s capital, Tenochtitlán. Located in the courtyard of an Aztec home, the altar ...
An earthquake last year revealed a big surprise beneath a law school in modern-day Mexico City: a giant, colorful snakehead from the Aztec Empire. The snakehead dates back more than 500 years, to when ...
Four children in Mexico were buried in the years after the Spanish Conquest with rituals and grave offerings that suggest that pre-Hispanic customs lived on for some time after the Aztec empire fell.