War was not the only means by which the alliance ... Putting him in control of a local territory allowed the Aztec to accumulate more power. This system led to the creation of complex power ...

As the Aztec scholar Ross Hassig notes, each war "was formally initiated by burning a large pyre of paper and incense between the two armies." The Mexica did not speak of "holy wars," because for ...

Archeologists have made a disturbing discovery of an Aztec tower of human skulls containing sacrificed women and children's heads ...

Among other things, it traces Latin America’s largely unrecognized role in the abolition of the doctrine of conquest and the ...

The discovery also sheds light on how the Aztec society evolved — introducing more standardized religion and control before the empire fell in 1521 — by showing how obsidian use changed over time.

From Hindu demon myths to Aztec end-times beliefs, solar eclipses have long been seen as signs of doom. This video explores ...

All the Aztec instruments of definite pitch were tuned to the five-note sea shell’s scale. As early Spanish chroniclers noted, the Aztecs played and sang ballads, war songs, dance rituals.