The Aztec Empire may have ended centuries ago, but its presence is far from gone. It lingers in temple ruins, place names, ...

Built in the 16th century by the Spanish on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the old Aztec capital, Mexico City is now one of the world's largest and most densely populated cities. It has five Aztec temples ...

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 ...

A large model of the main Aztec temple, the Templo Mayor, rises in Mexico City's central square ahead of the 500th anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlan. The ruins of the ancient Templo Mayor ...

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A striking 600-year-old Aztec sculpture depicting a golden eagle has been uncovered in an ancient temple in Mexico, archaeologists with Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History ...

Tenochtitlán was an Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521. Built on an island on Lake Texcoco, it had a system of canals and causeways that supplied the hundreds of thousands of ...

The Zoom meeting will take place on Jan. 24, 2023, at 6 p.m., 100 years after President Warren G. Harding’s proclamation established Aztec Ruins National Monument on Jan. 24, 1923.

First discovered during a 1999 excavation of an Aztec temple in Mexico City, clutched in the hands of a beheaded 20-year-old sacrificial victim, these whistles—also known as ehecachichtli—are ...

MEXICO CITY, July 8 (Reuters) - For 14 months, a team of more than 80 engineers, surveyors, restorers, architects and archaeologists have been toiling to protect part of one of Mexico's most ...