A team of cognitive neuroscientists at the University of Zurich, has found that ancient Aztec "skull whistles" found in gravesites are able to instill fear in modern people. In their study, published ...

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 ...

For a long time, scholars have thought that the Aztecs had frequent contact with groups in what's now the American Southwest. But a new chemical analysis of ancient turquoise artifacts just put a ...

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 ...

Previously published in two separate volumes, The lost history of Aztec & Maya and The Aztec & Maya : life in an ancient civilization. ANTHREF copy 39088019656735 gift from Paul R. Julian. Aztec & ...

Picture the Aztecs and what images come to mind? A bloodthirsty people sacrificing captives and ripping out their hearts to frenzied crowds? The hapless and incompetent leader Moctezuma handing over ...

This important Aztec god embodied both the rising sun and the martial vigor needed to sustain it. Born fully armed atop the sacred Coatepec mountain, his daily triumph over darkness symbolized the sun ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient Aztec palace that later became the site of the home of famed Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes in Mexico City. The discovery was made ...