This skull-shaped mask was made to be used in a ritual involving the Aztec god of death.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Its fear-splitting screech reverberates throughout space and time. Swiss and Norwegian neuroscientists have discovered that the ancient Aztec death whistle — often credited with emitting the scariest ...