The Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan had a large bone rack, called a tzompantli, that stored thousands of human skulls. Advertisement. Advertisement. Advertisement. Advertisement.

Mexico-Tenochtitlan was situated where Mexico City stands today. Historic buildings in the capital were lit up, while ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Walking for hours through the gritty streets in the center of Mexico City, you can hear the daily urban soundtrack: Car engines, the call of the man who buys scrap metal and ...

Aztec introductions. To the Aztec, 1519 was a year that began with their empire as the uncontested power in the region. Its capital city, Tenochtitlan, ruled 400 to 500 small states with a total ...

The Metropolitan Cathedral’s communications office in Mexico City expressed its dissatisfaction with the projection of ...

The patron of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, Huitzilopochtli was also the god of war and of human sacrifice. ... many women took up arms and defended the city. ...

Archaeologists have discovered what they think are ruins of an Aztec pyramid razed by vengeful Spanish conquerors in what is now one of Mexico City's most crime-ridden districts.

San Andrés Tetepilco, one of the original 15 settlements of present-day Iztapalapa, was situated on the southeast side of Mexico City—formerly Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital.

Archeologists have discovered a massive ceremonial skull rack from the heyday of the Aztec empire in the heart of Mexico City, a find that could shed new light on how its rulers projected power by ...