drugs for pain relief, and religious ceremonies. This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Where do babies come from? The Aztecs’ answer to ...

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.

A terrifying ancient instrument known as the Aztec death whistle, which produces a sound described as the "scream of a thousand corpses", remains just as frightening to modern listeners as it was ...