'The Elegant Skull', the face of Mexico 's 'Day of the Dead' festival, appeared in a volcanic ash cloud during an eruption weeks before the annual festivities. A photograph of the cloud shared on ...

Historians relate how the severed heads of captured warriors adorned tzompantli, or skull racks, found in a number of Mesoamerican cultures before the Spanish conquest. Skulls are seen on June 30 ...

A tower of human skulls unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City has raised new questions about the culture of sacrifice in the Aztec Empire after crania of women and children surfaced among the ...

The new set of skulls was discovered in March, buried more than 10 feet under the streets of the Mexican capital. (Mexico City was built on top of the Aztec empire's capital, Mexico-Tenochtitlán.) ...

(Image credit: Cristina García / INAH.) Human skulls deliberately warped into strange, alien-like shapes have been unearthed in a 1,000-year-old cemetery in Mexico, researchers say.