Before Spanish colonization, Templo Mayor served as the religious center for the Aztec people. When Spanish conquistadors arrived in the early 16th century, the temple was among many structures ...

Archaeologists in Mexico say they have made an important discovery, uncovering a temple to Xipe Tótec ... spread throughout Mesoamerica during Aztec times. The INAH say the 85cm (33in) ceramic ...

We are not sure about that. We are sure that the former Aztec temple was not used to bury Nahua Indians (the descendants of the Aztecs) after the Spanish conquest. In related news, archaeologists have ...

Eight years later, when Spanish conquistadores saw it atop a platform in the Aztecs’ central temple, the Templo Mayor, in the capital city of Tenochtitlan, one described it as “round ...