In fact, the Aztecs actually called themselves the Mexica or the Culhua-Mexica. Sometimes, they were also referred to as the ...

If he is right, then the Aristo-Canine may be a subterranean guide into the mystique of a people we know as the Aztec, but who called themselves Mexica (pronounced meh-SHEE-ka), and whose legacy ...

The Aztec, who referred to themselves as the Mexica, began as a group of nomadic peoples who settled on Lake Texcoco in central Mexico around the year 1325. After introducing the reader to the ...

Archaeologists dig up Aztec ruins, and museums stage exhibitions about the Mexica, as the Mesoamerican people are also known. But the dawn of the Aztec civilization, marked by the founding of the ...

the capital city of the Aztecs, or Mexica. The finely carved objects, which include scepters, ear flares, nose and finger rings, and miniature masks and weapons, were buried between 1486 and 1502 ...

However, there is a doubt about the people who dominated these lands and this geographical part of America: Was this people of the Mexica or the Aztecs? The Mexica settled where they found an ...

The Mexican case is particularly interesting because it recalls an ancient Aztec tradition: the New Fire Ceremony. However, the Mexica did not adopt the Long Count and, consequently, instead of ...

She believes they were Mexica, the indigenous people who lived in the Valley of Mexico and who founded the Aztec empire. The altar contained a pot with human ashes and 13 intricately decorated ...