"Past is present everywhere in Mexico," says López Luján. That is especially true of the Aztec Empire, virtually all of which resides just beneath the footsteps of a modern nation. When word ...

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

The Aztecs were a group of Nahuatl-speaking peoples that dominated large parts of central Mexico from the 14th to the 16th centuries. Their empire was overthrown by invaders led by the Spanish ...

She believes they were Mexica, the indigenous people who lived in the Valley of Mexico and who founded the Aztec empire. The altar contained a pot with human ashes and 13 intricately decorated ...

Created in an ancient drainage project, they were the economic foundation of the Aztec empire They are highly productive farm plots surrounded on at least three sides by canals.

Happy birthday, New Mexico! Today, the Land of Enchantment is celebrating its 113th anniversary of statehood. With a rich ...

Between 1345 and 1521 C.E., the Aztec Empire flourished in what is now central and southern Mexico. The Aztecs were highly advanced in agriculture and trade, largely thanks to an elite group of ...

the Spanish would never have been able to conquer Mexico. Appropriately, the double-headed serpent tells both the stories. It is a document of the Aztec Empire at the height of its artistic ...

Yet the axolotl has become an improbable global megastar. Shops are crowded with cuddly axolotls. Toy axolotls fall out of McDonald’s Happy Meals. Axolotl-themed clothes, jewellery and Christmas ...