Anthropologists have pieced together the grisly details of one of the most gruesome encounters between Spanish conquistadors and the Aztecs in late-16th century Mexico. In 2019 archaeologists at a ...
Archaeologists are celebrating the largest Aztec house ever found in South America, unearthed from the bustling streets of Mexico City. The structure was discovered by labourers during maintenance ...
For a long time, scholars have thought that the Aztecs had frequent contact with groups in what's now the American Southwest. But a new chemical analysis of ancient turquoise artifacts just put a ...
The Aztec civilisation, as well as other ancient peoples from the Americas, have long eluded archaeologists. They were among some of the most advanced human beings of their time in both fields of ...
San Diego State University’s debate over the Aztec Warrior mascot is patronizing to the great indigenous nation whose name the school represents. Although well-intentioned, the controversial movement ...
Pages from the early Aztec census, thought to have been ordered by Hernándo Cortés, was discovered in the Jagiellonian Library at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków Jagiellonian Library, ...
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The Aztecs arrive in the Basin of Mexico. They settle on the shores of Lake Tetzcoco, having travelled to a place where, as prophesied, they would see an eagle perched on a cactus Rule of Moctezuma I ...