The Aztec Empire was one of the most dominant forces the world had ever seen, but it would fall from grace in a span of two ...

Aztec temples form the base of the Square of Three Cultures in Mexico City, a monument marking the Aztec, Spanish colonial, and modern period in Mexico’s rich history. Once the baby was welcomed ...

Then the Spaniards burst into the rooms of the temple to kill the others ... The Brohen Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (Boston: Beacon Press, 1962), pp. 64­66, 129­131. As ...

The invaders crushed temples and raised churches all over the Aztec Empire. And the object that we're looking at now shows us exactly how that process was carried out. "Any visitor to Mexico will ...

It wasn't until 1978 that the temple dedicated to the Aztec gods Huitzilopochtli and Tláloc (gods of war and water) was unearthed in the heart of Mexico City. Today, the area remains an active ...

Although it has been argued that other ancient wonders of comparable regard—such as the Great Wall of China, Machu Picchu in Peru, and the Aztec Temple in Tenochtitlan in Mexico—should have ...

During my time in Mexico City ... Pyramid of the Moon for an Aztec energy meditation. Teotihuacán is a Mexican archaeological site with pyramids. It includes the Temple of Quetzalcoatl, the ...

Archeologists are reconstructing the history of the ancient megacity of Teotihuacán using the nearly 2,000-year-old remains ...

A massive disk of intricately carved stone looms over a gallery in Mexico City’s National Museum ... Commissioned by the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II (r. 1502–1520), the nearly 12-foot-wide ...

The invaders crushed temples and raised churches all over the Aztec Empire. And the object that we're looking at now shows us exactly how that process was carried out. "Any visitor to Mexico will ...