The Aztec Empire once hosted an expansive trade network that brought volcanic glass to its capital from right across Mesoamerica, coast to coast. The largest compositional study of obsidian artifacts ...

Centuries-old codices from what is now Mexico hold a wealth of knowledge about the Aztecs in their native language, including details about the founding of their capital, their conquests and their ...

The Aztec Calendar Stone, a world-renowned monument of Mesoamerican craftsmanship, was buried face-down by Spanish ...

The Aztec outnumbered the Spanish, but that didn't stop Hernán Cortés from seizing Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, in 1521. This 18th-century oil painting, part of the Conquest of Mexico series at ...

CHICAGO -- An ambitious new exhibition at the Field Museum reassembles some fragments of a world that was shattered forever Aug. 31, 1521. That was when the small Spanish army of conquistador Hernan ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEXICO CITY (AP) — Walking for hours through ...

Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has secured the colorful San Andrés Tetepilco codices. These Aztec documents from the late 16th and early 17th centuries recount the ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

A tower of hundreds of human skulls has been unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City. Archaeologists have found more than 650 skulls caked in lime and thousands of fragments in the cylindrical ...