Carved from wood more than five centuries ago, a small skull faced mask held today at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore ...

Aztec writing sometimes used different colours to refine a word's meaning: This page is from an early 16th century book about Aztec imperial taxation, the Matricula de Tributos, now in the National ...

Mesoamerican cultures spanned the the areas of Mexico and Central America for centuries. These had distinctive food cultures ...

Archaeologists uncovered 118 skeletons at an Aztec-era burial site, including remains believed to belong to both Aztecs and the local Matlatzinca people. The discovery reveals how the Aztec Empire ...

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 Mayor, ...

A newly discovered trove of Aztec sacrifices could lead archaeologists to an elusive Aztec emperor's tomb. Such a discovery would mark a first since no Aztec royal burial has yet been found despite ...

Learn more about the tragic fall of the Aztec Empire and how found artifacts are helping to restore pieces of the past. The Aztec Empire was one of the largest cities in the world toward the end of ...

The answer to the mystery of leaders’ ultimate fate could be revealed behind two doors at the end of a tunnel into a platform at Tenochtitlán’s Great Temple Archaeologists in Mexico have found a ...