Peruvian anthropologist Luis Millones and Mexican archeologist Eduardo Matos speak with EL PAÍS and reflect on their new book ...

In 1531, a dazzling Marian apparition ended centuries of despair and terror and ushered in a new era of faith in Mexico.

In the Aztec writing system, 10-Rabbit is 1502—the year, according to the codices surviving from the era, that the empire's most feared ruler, Ahuitzotl (pronounced ah-WEE-tzohtl), was laid to ...

Some will shock you, while others will delight you. The Aztec Empire was full of interesting daily tidbits that we never learned about in school.

In 2006, a huge monolith of the Aztec earth goddess was found nearby with an inscription corresponding to the year 1502, which is when the empire's greatest ruler and the last of the brothers ...

Soon Moctezuma was dead; Tenochtitlan was reduced by the Spaniards to smoking rubble, and with no emperor and no capital, the Aztec Empire was effectively destroyed. These catastrophes were ...

like other sacred Aztec buildings, was razed by the Spanish conquistadors. Axayácatl reigned between 1469 and 1481 and was the father of Montezuma, one of the empire's last rulers. "Below the ...