The Aztec civilization may have peaked more than 500 years ago, but all the Aztec gods and goddesses remain culturally significant even today. News Today's news ...

The newcomers from another world, whom we thought were gods, turned out to be just a greedy men. Their blasphemous invasion ...

From jaguars to shooting stars, these rare and meaningful Náhuatl names are steeped in centuries of culture, cosmic symbolism ...

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 ...

Aztec adults also firmly believed in the divine supervision of childbirth, and that from the moment of conception, a fetus’s healthy development depended on the will of the gods. Aztec society ...

Aztec death whistles, or skull whistles, are small clay creations from ancient Mesoamerica, particularly the Aztec civilization. The first ones were discovered by researchers in 1999.

The 100-minute odyssey through the Mexico-born sport/theater hybrid starring masked fighters with torrid backstories and bone-crunching moves, merges sport with theater with fabulous impact.

The show includes several site-specific murals, drawn on various walls, that depict Aztec deities in female form, all in the line-drawing style famously used in the pre-Columbian era.

At its core, Aztec sacrifice was the act of offering gifts to the gods in the form of blood. As such, its performance was intrinsically rooted in Aztec religion. The Mexica believed that humans had to ...

MEXICO CITY, Sept 29 (Reuters) - A museum exhibit displaying Aztec ritual offerings dug up from underneath downtown Mexico City opened on Friday in a first-ever showcase that offers new insight ...