The placement of every excavated object appeared to be governed by an exquisite logic, re-creating the Aztec Empire's entire cosmology. It was at the very bottom of the second offering box that ...

Today, Teotihuacán is a UNESCO World Heritage site and remains a cornerstone of Mesoamerican history. Sugiyama's team ...

Mosaic; from Mexico. Listening to the sounds of buskers in the heart of Mexico City today, ...

Virtually all the accounts of the Aztec Empire were written by the Spaniards who overthrew it, and so they have to be read with considerable scepticism. It's all the more important, then ...

ZDF Studios has picked up the global distribution rights to the six-part history series Ancient Betrayals.

The palace was also used as the home of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés after the fall of the Aztec empire. Excavators have found evidence of the home Cortés had at the palace site.

Aztec society, whose powerful empire stretched over what is now southern Mexico from the 14th through 16th centuries, was suffused with religious customs. It was also highly practical and had ...