Aztec capital. According to legend, the Aztec people left their home city of Aztlan nearly 1,000 years ago. Scholars do not know where Aztlan was, but according to ancient accounts one of these ...

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

Digital artist Thomas Kole, originally from Amersfoort, Netherlands, has re-created the capital of the Aztec, or Mexica, empire with so much detail that it looks like a living metropolis.

A new analysis of hundreds of obsidian artifacts from the Aztec Empire has revealed the vast trade networks that supplied obsidian, sometimes even from rivals.

Officials have also built a near life-size replica of the Aztecs’ twin temples in the capital’s vast main plaza. It is part of a project to rescue the memory of the world-changing event ...

Much of the valley was already inhabited, including the good agricultural land, so the Aztecs settled on an island at the western end of Lake Texcoco. They built their capital city, Tenochtitlán ...

National Museum of Art, Mexico City. Following the fall of Tenochtitlan, an Aztec poet composed a searing account of the capture of the capital city. Written in the Nahuatl language, using the ...

MEXICO CITY – At the edge of the most sacred site of the Aztec capital, Mexico City's Templo Mayor, researchers have found an 'unprecedented' human burial in which the skeleton of a young woman ...

the Aztec capital, in 1521. This 18th-century oil painting, part of the Conquest of Mexico series at the Library of Congress, shows Hernán Cortés poised at the gates of the capital of the Aztec ...

Advertising Officials have also built a near life-size replica of the Aztecs’ twin temples in the capital’s vast main plaza. It is part of a project to rescue the memory of the world-changing ...