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 ...

The tlamatlquiticitl—midwife—offered those in her charge a remarkable 16th-century birthing plan, combining practical care, drugs for pain relief, and religious ceremonies.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. MEXICAN archaeologists have made the most significant Aztec find in decades, unearthing a 15th-century altar and a huge stone slab ...

The pinnacle of Aztec architecture was a vast religious building – with a blood-soaked history. Jonathan Glancey investigates. The opening ceremony of the sixth Great Temple of Tenochtitlan on ...

Claudia Santos performs a ceremony with residents and members of an Amaxac Indigenous organization to commemorate the 503rd anniversary of the fall of the Aztec empire's capital, Tenochtitlan, in ...

These ceremonies included visual and sonic iconographic elements of mythological deities of the Aztec underworld, which may also be symbolized in the Aztec death whistle.