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.

On the edge of Mexico City's famed Zócalo plaza, next to the ruins of the Aztec sacred pyramid known ... They did not erect temples and disseminate cultural traditions across the countryside ...

Aztec temples form the base of the Square of Three Cultures in Mexico City, a monument marking the Aztec, Spanish colonial, and modern period in Mexico’s rich history. Once the baby was welcomed ...

This awe-inspiring snake sculpture dates back to the height of the Aztec Empire, when Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, was a thriving capital. Measuring nearly 6 feet in length and weighing 1.3 tons ...

The invaders crushed temples and raised churches ... the province of Tlaxcala to the east of Mexico City - a region whose people had bitterly resented Aztec rule, and who had enthusiastically ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During my time in Mexico City ... Pyramid of the Moon for an Aztec energy meditation. Teotihuacán is a Mexican archaeological site with pyramids. It includes the Temple of Quetzalcoatl, the ...

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 ...