It was a great honor to be allowed to sacrifice a human in a public setting in the Aztec Empire. The warriors would go out into combat and come back with slaves to sacrifice. However, this was not an ...

That location has been the cause of debate throughout the centuries. Some believe Montezuma’s treasure was taken north towards what is now the United States. One legend speaks of a party of Aztecs ...

Experts say it was located in a courtyard inside a home of ... The battle of Tenochtitlán is seen as the beginning of the end of the Aztec empire, which in its heyday ruled over the central ...

the patron of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. The Aztecs were a group of Nahuatl-speaking peoples that dominated large parts of central Mexico from the 14th to the 16th centuries. Their empire was ...

The name itself, 'aztec', means 'people from Aztlan', a mythological location for the region's Nahuatl-speaking culture ... a ritual that was practised by many of the region's natives and which ...

When Spaniards arrived on Aztec land in the 16th century, they wondrously documented the preparation of hundreds of various ...