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Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an 800-year-old Aztec pyramid in the heart of Mexico City that could show the ancient city is at least a century older than previously thought.

Like most gods in the Aztec pantheon, Tezcatlipoca is difficult to define in a succinct manner ... Some Mesoamerican cultures regarded Tezcatlipoca as this supreme omnipotent deity. According to the ...

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In the Dresden Codex, one of four surviving Mayan bark-paper books, Krupp said, the sun and the moon are repeatedly depicted falling into the open jaws of a serpent. In central Mexico, ancient ...

Xocolatl “was mostly an upper-class extravagance, although the lower classes enjoyed it occasionally at weddings or other celebrations,” according to History. Aztec ruler Montezuma II ...