A handful of Apple Valley residents call themselves Danzantes, or Aztec dancers. They are ‘taking back their Mexican cultural ...

The old Templo Mayor in the city of Tenochtitlan before the arrival of the Spanish. Credits: Public Domain The Aztec Empire was one of the most dominant forces the world had ever seen, but it would ...

"It's like a city frozen in time," said archaeologist Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of Canada's McGill University.

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 ...

Between 1345 and 1521 C.E., the Aztec Empire flourished in what is now central and southern Mexico. The Aztecs were highly ...

The Aztec Empire was marked by a strong central power exercised by the King and by a Council of nobles of warrior ancestry. The society was organized in pyramid manner: below the Kings were ...

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

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 ...