The Mexica city’s founding is celebrated with new commemorations, reinforcing a nationalist focus on Indigenous identity ...

According to their tradition, the Templo Mayor represents where the god Huitzilopochtli gave the people the sign that they had reached the promised land, the chosen spot to build Tenochtitlan: an ...

México, 6 ago (EFE). — Dos ofrendas halladas en lo que fue el Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan sirvieron como representación de los tres niveles del universo que concebían los mexicas, bóveda ...

Life marched on as New Spain grew and turned into Mexico. Tenochtitlan and the Templo Mayor were all but forgotten, as were Aztec gods and culture.

Ruins of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan in Mexico City. Credit: August Dominus / Wikimedia Commons The researchers used portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (pXRF), a non-destructive technique ...

This imprint preserves details of the internal structure of the starfish, as well as its overall shape. It's one of 164 starfish recently unearthed at the Templo Mayor site in Mexico City.

The area was once the epicenter of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan - a gruesome site where human sacrifices were performed to honor the gods. Captives were taken to the city’s Templo Mayor, or ...

When the Templo Mayor was first uncovered in modern times, 1978, it was a staggering find — the physical remains of a religious structure that once rose as tall as a 15-story building.

Tenochtitlan only became important to the Spanish Empire as a show of force for Christianity, when conquering the Mexica people. ... The Templo Mayor and the Beit Ha-Mikdash, ...

More than 650 skulls and thousands of fragments were found near Templo Mayor, one of the main temples in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, which later became Mexico City. Getty Images ...