the same year as the nearby twin city of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire. The Spanish razed Tenochtitlan in 1521 to found Mexico City, conquering the Aztecs. The pyramid newly ...

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 ...

the capital city of Tenochtitlan -- the ruins of which lie beneath modern Mexico City, save for prominent pyramids and temples like the skull-composed Aztec Tower in Mexico City-- was a thriving ...

The bar was originally discovered in 1981 during a construction project some 5m underground in downtown Mexico City - which was built on the ruins of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan - where a canal ...

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 ...

Commissioned by the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II (r ... the Templo Mayor, in the capital city of Tenochtitlan, one described it as “round, like a figure of the sun.” When the Spaniards leveled ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Empires Apart: Aztec Civilization Pack The warriors of Tenochtitlan rush into battle! Play as the fierce Aztecs – an aggressive civilization that ...

The remains of an ancient Aztec palace have been discovered under a stately building in Mexico City. During renovations at the building off the capital's central Zócalo plaza, workers found ...

Mexico's national cathedral – the vaulting, austere, ornate church on the Zócalo's north end – was once the site of an ancient Aztec ... Tenochtitlan and is considered one of Mexico City's ...