On the edge of Mexico City's famed Zócalo ... goods and wanting the Aztec attacks to stop in their community," says Carrasco. Absent this appetite for an uprising, the 500 Spaniards who docked ...

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an 800-year-old Aztec pyramid in the heart of Mexico City that could show the ancient city is at least a century older than previously thought.

We allowed the Captain to return to the city in peace. But on the following day we attacked him with all our might, and that was the beginning of the war Source: From Miguel Leon­Portilla, ed., The ...

In 2017, researchers unearthed a macabre tower of human skulls after two years of digging beneath the Templo Mayor site in Mexico City ... the macabre Aztec hoard now totals 603 human skulls.

It is one of the best-preserved examples of pre-conquest Aztec-style writing that exists, after Catholic authorities in colonial-era Mexico dismissed such codices as the work of the devil and ...

Much of what is known of Aztec society comes from a book written by Bernardino de Sahagún, a Spanish friar living near what is now Mexico City. During the second part of the 16th century ...

Mexico City is an exciting combination of Aztec, colonial and modern art and ... The surrounding Centro Historico (Historic Center), a 500-block virtual museum of colonial architecture, was ...