On the edge of Mexico City's famed Zócalo plaza, next to the ruins of the Aztec sacred pyramid known as the Templo Mayor, the remains of an animal—perhaps a dog or a wolf—were discovered.

Aztec grass is not the most common way to border our gardens, but it's still used frequently and for good reason -- it's easy ...

Liriope, commonly known as monkey grass, is one of the most utilized landscape plant materials. Often integrated into landscapes as a border, redefining its use may create a new attitude for home ...

Mexico’s Templo Mayor was a center of Aztec civic life before the Spanish conquest. In 2012, archaeologists learned more about its importance for civic death. In a grisly discovery, they ...

the capital city of the Aztecs, or Mexica. The finely carved objects, which include scepters, ear flares, nose and finger rings, and miniature masks and weapons, were buried between 1486 and 1502 ...

Hygiene and ritual marked every moment of life for pregnant Aztec women. The tlamatlquiticitl—midwife—offered those in her charge a remarkable 16th-century birthing plan, combining practical ...

I n 1999, a clay Aztec death whistle was discovered in a grave in the Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl Temple in the Tlatelolco ...

In Fifth Sun, she writes an informative historical account that is a complex and captivating revisionist history of the Aztecs, drawn solely from their own texts, told in their own words ...

Author DBC Pierre travels through Mexico on a personal odyssey to recount the fate of the Aztec civilization. In this extract, he investigates the unfolding of a legendary doomsday prophecy.

In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in ...

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Aztec Municipal Schools contains 7 schools and 2,563 students. The district’s minority enrollment is 50%. Also, 56.6% of students are economically disadvantaged. The student body at the schools ...