Camilla Townsend’s new book, "Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs," documents the story of the Aztecs from an entirely new perspective, that of the Aztecs themselves. When it comes to staying ...

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 ...

Explore the history of the Aztecs, their incredible achievements in art, architecture, and warfare, as well as the factors ...

From the distance of five centuries we often look back to the conquest of Mexico as an all-out defeat for Aztec civilization, a victory by scrappy Spanish conquistadors over the awed and unprepared ...

Introduction: Aztec studies: trends and themes / Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría, Deborah L. Nichols -- Archaeology of the Aztecs. Ancient stone sculptures: in search of the Mexica past / Eduardo Matos ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient Aztec palace that later became the site of the home of famed Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes in Mexico City. The discovery was made ...

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