The Aztecs has about 200 deities — and in this article, we're uncovering the 13 most important Aztec gods and goddesses you ...

Aztec offering, Templo Mayor, Mexico City (Courtesy Proyecto Templo Mayor/INAH). Beneath a stone carving of the Aztec earth goddess Tlaltecuhtli inside Mexico City’s Templo Mayor, archaeologists ...

Reuters reports that the finds include the body a 9-year-old boy dressed as Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of war. The Aztecs made human sacrifices to the deity, who was also the god of the Sun.

The Aztecs believed the hearts, often belonging to prisoners of war or slaves, would satisfy the god of war's insatiable thirst, according to Encylopaedia Britannica. Aztec skulls sit in a museum ...

A huge offering of over 160 starfish was made to an Aztec war god over 500 years ago, archeological findings in Mexico show. Archeologists were excavating the Templo Mayor in Mexico City at the ...

Archeologists in Mexico City say they’ve discovered part of the long-rumored Huey Tzompantli, a rack of humans skulls believed to measure some 200 feet in diameter.