a mountain in Central Mexico that may have been a kind of solar timekeeper or Aztec calendar and is now a major archaeological site. One of the most important gods in the Aztec religion ...

Mexican urban legends include some of the scariest myths to have ever told. Here are the most frightening tales from Mexico ...

On the edge of Mexico City's famed Zócalo plaza ... tributary goods for Tenochtitlan and victims for the gods. The first rule of Aztec dominion was well in place by the time Ahuitzotl acquired ...

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 ...

a fetus’s healthy development depended on the will of the gods. Aztec society, whose powerful empire stretched over what is now southern Mexico from the 14th through 16th centuries, was suffused ...

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 ...

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 ...