That is especially true of the Aztec Empire, virtually all of which resides just beneath the footsteps of a modern nation. When word spread in 1978 that the Templo Mayor had been firmly located in ...

a monument marking the Aztec, Spanish colonial, and modern period in Mexico’s rich history. Once the baby was welcomed into the world, the tlamatlquiticitl looked to the hygiene of the mother ...

Aztec “skull whistles” found in ancient gravesites were designed to produce shrieking sounds and instil “otherworldly” fear even in modern people, scientists say. Archaeologists have ...

Various cultures developed a practice of chewing plant-derived substances, including the ancient Greeks, but modern chewing gum has its roots, literally, in the Aztec Empire and the sapodilla tree ...