Mexico City is celebrating 700 years since its founding with public events on Saturday, highlighting its Indigenous roots.

The Aztec Empire once hosted an expansive trade network that brought volcanic glass to its capital from right across Mesoamerica, from coast to coast. The largest compositional study of obsidian ...

Much of what is understood about Mesoamerica during the time of the Aztec comes from either sources written by the Mexica themselves or by the Spanish after 1519. The region was rich with other ...

Researchers analyzed 788 obsidian artifacts from Tenochtitlan, revealing that the Mexica (Aztec) Empire sourced this important material from at least eight different locations, including regions ...

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.

Aztec dance groups from Yakima, Seattle, Oregon, California, Chicago, and Mexico will gather Saturday and Sunday at the White Swan Pavilion, Mission Road in White Swan, to welcome the Mexica new year.

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Mexican Indigenous community members from Philadelphia and surrounding areas gathered ...

Dulé Hill learns the “Mexica” Handshake from Aztec Dancer Abuela M’api Rainflowa. In Houston, Dulé Hill learns the “mexica” handshake from Abuela M'api Rainflowa, the founder of ...

A replica of the the Aztec headdress known as quetzalāpanecayōtl, on display in the Aztec (Mexica) gallery, the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City (photograph courtesy Gary Todd via ...