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Archaeologists have made a grisly discovery in Mexico City that could lead to the first-ever Aztec royal tomb, according to Reuters. Experts found an array of sacrificial remains during an excavation ...

A story about the ancient civilization in the region of Mexico, set to face South Korea in the second match of the 2018 Russia World Cup qualifiers on the 23rd, graced the cover of the journal ...

Archaeologists working at the Templo Mayor site in Mexico City have recovered a ritual deposit containing stone figurines and ...

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Much like the coronavirus pandemic, which has forced the world to adapt, similar crises have rocked civilisations in years gone by. More than 500 years ago, Cortés and his men arrived in the Aztec ...

MEXICO CITY – Mexican archaeologists say they have found an unprecedented human burial in which the skeleton of a young woman is surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones in Mexico City's Templo Mayor.

Science Channel is to premiere the two-hour documentary special Lost Pyramids of The Aztecs later this June. Produced by Windfall Films, the one-off special will provide “unprecedented access” into ...

Carved from wood more than five centuries ago, a small skull faced mask held today at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore ...

Aztec priests at Tenochtitlán offered a whole galaxy of starfish to the war god Huitzilopochtli 700 years ago, along with a trove of other objects from the distant edges of the Aztec Empire.

Modern-day Mexico was formed in 1521, when a 500-strong group of Spanish conquistadors, led by Hernan Cortes, alongside thousands upon thousands of indigenous Mexicans, seized control of the centre of ...