The Aztec Empire is among the most famous Mesoamerican societies that existed before the arrival of Europeans. Formed by three city-states in the valley of Mexico (Tenochtitlan, Texcoco ...

The placement of every excavated object appeared to be governed by an exquisite logic, re-creating the Aztec Empire's entire cosmology. It was at the very bottom of the second offering box that ...

The remains of nearly 200 animals found in Mexico's Teotihuacán are helping reconstruct history.

Between 1345 and 1521 C.E., the Aztec Empire flourished in what is now central and southern Mexico. The Aztecs were highly advanced in agriculture and trade, largely thanks to an elite group of ...

Aztec society, whose powerful empire stretched over what is now southern Mexico from the 14th through 16th centuries, was suffused with religious customs. It was also highly practical and had ...

Mosaic; from Mexico. Listening to the sounds of buskers in the heart of Mexico City today, ...

the patron of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. The Aztecs were a group of Nahuatl-speaking peoples that dominated large parts of central Mexico from the 14th to the 16th centuries. Their empire was ...

Created in an ancient drainage project, they were the economic foundation of the Aztec empire They are highly productive farm plots surrounded on at least three sides by canals.

The main park in Mexico City, Bosque de Chapultepec (Chapultepec Forest) was once the temporary home of the Aztec empire after its citizens migrated to modern-day Mexico City in the 13th century.