The sacrifice of at least 42 children in Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, was an effort to calm the anger of the Aztec rain god ...

In other words, the terrifying ambiguity of the death whistle apparently ignites the imagination as the brain struggles to ...

The remains, mostly boys aged between two and seven years old, were placed inside a box of ashlars in a careful arrangement.

The altar dates back to the time after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán. Experts say it was located in a courtyard inside a home of an Aztec family, who would have used it ...

In 1519, when Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico he encountered an Aztec civilization dedicated to the practice of human sacrifice on a shocking scale. Tens of thousands of people were hauled to the ...

And, while the dead are involved in Dia de los Muertos, it’s in anything but a macabre way.Don’t be fooled by the faces ...

and were surprised to find the skulls of women and children and males raising questions about human sacrifice in the Aztec Empire, Reuters reported. The Aztecs dominated large parts of central ...

the Aztec god of the sun, war and human sacrifice. Archaeologists have no doubt it is one of the racks, or tzompantli, described by soldier Andres de Tapia, who accompanied Hernan Cortes in the ...