From agricultural terraces to temple ruins under Mexico City to art collections and more, tourists can get a glimpse of Aztec ...

Learning more about changes in the size, composition, and structure of past populations helps anthropologists understand the impact of historical events, including imperial conquest, colonization, and ...

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday asked the country's indigenous Mexica people to forgive the nation for the abuses they suffered during the 1521 conquest. Hector Vivas/Getty Images ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A tattered piece of bark paper with illustrations on it. Centuries-old codices from what is now Mexico hold a wealth of knowledge ...

Aztec writing sometimes used different colours to refine a word's meaning: This page is from an early 16th century book about Aztec imperial taxation, the Matricula de Tributos, now in the National ...

Archaeologists in Mexico City have found an altar dated to the decades after Spain’s 1521 conquest of the Aztec Empire’s capital, Tenochtitlán. Located in the courtyard of an Aztec home, the altar ...

MEXICO CITY — There are two ways of remembering the Spanish siege of Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital now known as Mexico City: as the painful birth of modern Mexico, or the start of centuries of ...

For centuries, the fate of the original Otomi inhabitants of Xaltocan, the capital of a pre-Aztec Mexican city-state, has remained unknown. Researchers have long wondered whether they assimilated with ...

AUSTIN, Texas — For centuries, the fate of the original Otomí inhabitants of Xaltocan, the capital of a pre-Aztec Mexican city-state, has remained unknown. Researchers have long wondered whether they ...