Known as the "Aztec death whistle," this object is an ancient Mesoamerican wind instrument typically crafted into the shape ...

In 2017, researchers unearthed a macabre tower of human skulls after two years of digging beneath the Templo Mayor site in Mexico City ... the macabre Aztec hoard now totals 603 human skulls.

It wasn't until 1978 that the temple dedicated to the Aztec gods Huitzilopochtli and Tláloc (gods of war and water) was unearthed in the heart of Mexico City. Today, the area remains an active ...

The Temple of the Plumed Serpent ... the pyramid-studded, pre-Aztec metropolis 30 miles northeast of present-day Mexico City. Dig sites sloshed over with water; a torrent of mud and debris coursed ...

Aztec temples form the base of the Square of Three Cultures in Mexico City, a monument marking the ... She was buried in a special temple at twilight, and her soul traveled to the house of the ...

Then the Spaniards burst into the rooms of the temple to kill the ... the Captain to return to the city in peace. But on the following day we attacked him with all our might, and that was the ...

The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50 km north-east of Mexico City. Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., it is characterized by the vast ...

Mexico City is a sprawling metropolis that can take ... Also nearby is the Templo Mayor, an excavated Aztec temple once thought to be the literal center of the universe. The Museo del Templo ...

More than 100 hectares (247 acres) were scorched after a wildfire broke out in Mexico’s El Tepozteco National Park and Protected Natural Area, which includes an Aztec archeological site, on March 25, ...

Listening to the sounds of buskers in the heart of Mexico City today, beating Aztec-style drums and wearing ... regeneration and resurrection. In the temple of Quetzalcoatl in Tenochtitlan you ...

The rebel energy is real with Mexico City-based band Molotov, and it's bringing all of it to San Antonio's Aztec Theatre this fall for its "30 Anniversary Txxxr." Here's how to get tickets to ...