The Romans believed that cats could see ghosts. In Aztec and Mayan folklore, cats were esteemed as guides to the underworld.

The months of waiting for SDSU football to return officially come to an end this Saturday against Portland State. The Aztecs ...

MEXICO CITY—The full moon was approaching when I was invited on a day trip to commune with the Aztecs. “Bring shorts and a towel,” my host told me mysteriously. Five hundred years ago, the Aztec ...

Parents need to know that A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters by Pura Belpre award-winning author-illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh is a picture book celebrating the Aztec people's rich ...

This episode of The Story of Mexico peels back the layers of Aztec writing and record-keeping, focusing on the tlacuilo — the painter-scribes who crafted amoxtli, the folded-screen books. Lucas and ...

Greenstone sculptures from Guerrero, thousands of marine shells, copal spheres and snake-shaped pendants were part of a 500-year-old Aztec ritual offering uncovered at Templo Mayor in Mexico City.

When Aztec emissaries arrived in 1520 to Tzintzuntzan, the capital of the Tarascan Kingdom in what is now the Mexican state of Michoacán, they carried a warning from the Aztec emperor, Cuauhtémoc.

The so-called fall of the Aztecs in 1521 was never a clean break. However, a violent transformation whose survivors still speak Nahuatl, remember Tenochtitlán, and challenge simple stories of conquest ...

In the history of the Mesoamerican civilizations, the Aztecs occupy a major position. A lot of their history is known to us, mostly because of their contact with the Spanish conquistadors. But we ...

Though the new animated feature “Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires” bears the name of one of the most emblematic American superheroes, its creation was entirely a Mexican affair. The action-packed saga ...

The culture that thrived at Teotihuacan in the Classic period has a unique place in Mesoamerican history. Today, it is held as an emblem of the Mexican national past and is one of the most visited ...

A new analysis of artwork left behind by the enigmatic inhabitants of the abandoned Mesoamerican city Teotihuacan suggests the colorful pictures and shapes may constitute a rudimentary language that ...