The sacrifice of at least 42 children in Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, was an effort to calm the anger of the Aztec rain god ...

New research has revealed that remains 42 children, unearthed at Templo Mayor, were linked to a severe drought that ravaged ...

Before Hernán Cortes' arrival in Tenochtitlan, the city was the capital of the Mexica empire, which was ruled by the tlatoani Moctezuma Xocoyotzin, or Moctezuma II. The city was splendid and had ...

A clear example of these is the Moctezuma metro station, who was the tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan at the time when the Spaniards arrived in the capital of the Mexican empire, commanded by ...

The Mexican National College presents new findings on the 15th-century climate crisis that led to the sacrifice of 42 ...

The remains, mostly boys aged between two and seven years old, were placed inside a box of ashlars in a careful arrangement.

The historical timeline you keep in your head might not be as accurate as you think Colin Schultz; Updated by Meilan Solly Teaching in Oxford, England, began no later than 1096. Tenochtitlán, the ...

Known as the Huey Tzompantli, the skull rack stood on the corner of the chapel of Huitzilopochtli, the patron of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. The Aztecs were a group of Nahuatl-speaking peoples ...

The altar was found underneath a modern home near Plaza Garibaldi in Mexico City Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered an altar dating back to the 16th Century near Plaza Garibaldi, the square ...

Centuries-old codices from what is now Mexico hold a wealth of knowledge about the Aztecs in their native language, including details about the founding of their capital, their conquests and their ...