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 ...

Construction Worker Stumbles on a Gigantic Gold Bar Under a Street, Was Left Behind by a Fleeing Spanish Invader In 2020, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s also one of the world’s largest city squares. It contains a giant Mexican flag at its center and has been the centerpiece of public gatherings since the days of the Aztec empire (it was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now, you will become an Aztec and do everything you can to make ... for building and bringing to splendor the magnificent Tenochtitlan city-state. This amazing architectural wonder was ...