The Aztec civilization may have peaked more than 500 years ago, but all the Aztec gods and goddesses remain culturally significant even today. Once central to the Aztec religion, these deities ...

Then, a team of archaeologists led by Salvador Guillieum Arroyo were exploring the ruins of an ancient Aztec temple in Tlatelolco, Mexico City dedicated to the wind god Ehecatl. It was here that ...

Mosaic mask of turquoise and lignite covers a human skull and represents an Aztec god, Tezcatlipoca ... Establishing a pattern that would recur throughout his career, Cortés soon found himself ...

Xiuhtecuhtli, whose name means "turquoise lord" in the Nahuatl language, was the Aztec "new fire" god. The Aztecs kept a "holy fire" continuously burning in the Fire Temple at Tenochtitlan ...

He’s seen with his eyes closed, hands crossed over his chest, dressed in traditional attire that includes a headpiece, Aztec patterns and ... him just speaking to God and himself and feeling ...

Dogs were important symbolically in Aztec mythology. They were believed to ... but their burial follows no particular pattern that the archaeologists could discern. Whether the Aztecs associated ...

The artifacts were discovered at Templo Mayor, the primary temple of the Aztecs in what is now Mexico City. An Aztec offering discovered at the Templo Mayor in Mexico City. Courtesy of the ...

At its core, Aztec sacrifice was the act of offering gifts to the gods in the form of blood. As such, its performance was intrinsically rooted in Aztec religion. The Mexica believed that humans had to ...

The skull shape, for instance, might allude to the Aztec god of the underworld, Mictlantecuhtli. Aztec death whistles don't fit into any existing Western classification for wind instruments ...

In fact, the mask's raised turquoise may depict the wart-faced god Nanahuatzin, who, according to Aztec mythology, sacrificed himself to the fire and emerged to become the sun. Kristina Killgrove ...