a mountain in Central Mexico that may have been a kind of solar timekeeper or Aztec calendar and is now a major ...

Archaeologists in Mexico say they have made ... spread throughout Mesoamerica during Aztec times. The INAH say the 85cm (33in) ceramic effigy of the god was found in relatively good condition ...

The overlap between kings and gods was very important to the ... from his mythic homeland to the central valley of Mexico at the dawn of the Aztec state. Another glyph, slightly to the left ...

So far, archaeologists have found 676 skulls in a site next to Mexico City's Metropolitan Cathedral ... of the chapel of Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of the sun, war and human sacrifice.

the Aztec god of art, games, beauty, dance and maize (among others). The museum offers a look at how tradition, culture and life were formed in all regions of Mexico, and it also educates visitors ...

Animals were also revered in Teotihuacán, with evidence that they were given as gifts, sacrificed, or venerated. Many of the animals found in the burial sites were also apex predators at the top of ...

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 ...

Legend has it that their namesake — the Aztec god of fire and lightning, Xolotl — disguised himself as a salamander to avoid sacrifice. The axolotl is so culturally revered in Mexico that the ...