Aztec priests, using razor-sharp obsidian blades, sliced open the chests of sacrificial victims and offered their still-beating hearts to the gods. They then tossed the victims' lifeless bodies ...

Amidst this unsettling environment, Colby College Museum of Art’s “Radical Histories: Chicanx Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum” (through June 8) reminds us of the ability of protest art ...

Five hundred years have passed since the death of Cuauhtémoc, the last ruler of the Aztec Empire. To commemorate this ...

On a hill where Aztec priests once studied the stars, President Manuel Avila Camacho of Mexico dedicated a great modern observatory. Tonanzintla, near Puebla, 70 miles southeast of Mexico City ...

Aztec priests practised some pretty blood-thirsty rituals, often sacrificing up to 50,000 people a year! This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.

All written narrations about the apparitions of the Lady of Guadalupe are inspired by the Nican Mopohua, written in Nahuatl, the Aztec language ... given to us by our priests, delegates of ...

Spanish soldiers blocked the exits and slaughtered numerous Aztec nobles, priests, and warriors. According to the Getty Museum, there are contrasting records of the event, with the Spaniards claiming ...

Bought from Tiffany's in New York in 1898, it was believed to be of Aztec origin and to have been ... There we met an old medicine man named Job Keme, high priest of the Council of Elders which ...

By Paarth Mathur ✐ While Europe's 19th-century surgeons struggled with a 50% survival rate for skull surgeries, the ancient ...