When the first Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan in 1519, they claimed to have witnessed a ...

The archaeological team ... of the earth goddess Tlaltecuhtli (pronounced tlal-TEK-tli)—the symbol of the Aztec life and death cycle, squatting to give birth while drinking her own blood ...

LiDAR was the key technology that enabled Ramón Celis to uncover the full scale of Guiengola. Unlike traditional ...

Archaeologists excavating at the foot of the Aztecs’ Great Temple, in downtown Mexico City, discovered a dazzling collection of gold artifacts and the skeleton of a juvenile wolf. Occupying a ...

MORE ARCHAEOLOGY BREAKTHROUGHS ... The skull design may represent Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec Lord of the Underworld. "Given both the aversive/scary and associative/symbolic sound nature ...

"There were several Aztec gods that were represented by skulls ... that no such skull has ever been uncovered at an official archaeological excavation led the British Museum to extrapolate ...