Aztec death whistles have a unique instrumental construction . To understand the physical mechanisms behind the whistle's shrill and screeching sound, a team of researchers at the University of ...

MEXICO CITY, Nov 24 (Reuters) - An extensive cache of Aztec ritual offerings found underneath downtown Mexico City, off the steps of what would have been the empire's holiest shrine, provides new ...

Once every 52 years, Aztec priests let the fire die out. The high priest, wearing a turquoise mask representing Xiuhtecuhtli, would then perform a Xiuhtlalpilli, or "new fire ceremony", which ...

Hygiene and ritual marked every moment of life for pregnant Aztec women. The tlamatlquiticitl—midwife—offered those in her charge a remarkable 16th-century birthing plan, combining practical ...

From the distance of five centuries we often look back to the conquest of Mexico as an all-out defeat for Aztec civilization, a victory by scrappy Spanish conquistadors over the awed and ...

The 400 Spanish conquistadors who walked into the Aztec capital in the 16th century had conquest and new-world riches on their minds, but they were initially welcomed as friends.

Aztec Empire uses “documentation to battle the myths surrounding this epic.” The Aztec Council as depicted in 16th century manuscripts and the Aztec Empire graphic Novel. Drawn by Guinan and Hahn ...

The Templo Mayor (Great Temple) was the religious and political heart of Tenochtitlán, a city-state on an island in the Valley of Mexico that became the Aztec Empire's capital in the 15th century AD.