An ancient Mayan altar in Tikal, a 2,400-year-old city in Guatemala, evidences a quasi-imperial control system before the ...

Various cultures developed a practice of chewing plant-derived substances, including the ancient Greeks, but modern chewing gum has its roots, literally, in the Aztec Empire and the sapodilla tree ...

In 1519 Hernan Cortés sailed from Cuba, landed in Mexico and made his way to the Aztec capital. Miguel Leon­Portilla, a Mexican anthropologist, gathered accounts by the Aztecs, some of which were ...

The Mexica New Year, which signals the start of the Aztec calendar ... with some 80 Native craftsmen offering jewelry, art, clothes and cultural items from across North America, and a wide ...