Five hundred years have passed since the death of Cuauhtémoc, the last ruler of the Aztec Empire. To commemorate this anniversary, a special issue of Arqueología Mexicana was published, bringing new ...

Hygiene and ritual marked every moment of life for ... grisly procedure that nevertheless “saved the mother from death.” The Aztec believed babies who died during labor traveled to a place ...

“Aztec communities might have capitalised on the scary and scream-like nature of skull whistles,” they say, adding that ritual use of the whistles during human sacrifice was more likely than ...

"The Aztec didn't impose their religion. They just wanted the products ... The emperor had responded by putting the ruler to death. At Ahuitzotl's funeral, 200 of his slaves were selected ...

Aztec religion was polytheistic ... god and the patron god of the earth who represented the cycle of life and death. People often depicted her as a fearsome figure with a serpent skirt, meant ...