A note on spelling and translations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Water and the sacred city -- Chapter 3: The Tlatoani in Tenochtitlan -- Chapter 4: The city in the conquest's wake -- ...

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 ...

Spanish conquistadors destroyed the Huei Tzompantli tower, but archaeologist are unearthing its ruins. Archaeologists have unearthed a new section of the Huey Tzompantli, a “tower of skulls” in what ...

Let's turn to a story from more than 500 years ago to the Spanish conquest of Mexico. For years, the story of European dominance has been largely accepted as historical truth. But a closer look at ...

Every Thursday evening at a park in the Pilsen neighborhood, a group of Aztec dancers, some originally from Mexico City, gather to practice the ancestral ritual amid the laughs of children on the ...