Insights into the Aztec Epidemics of the 16th Century The 16th century marked a tragic period for the Aztec civilization, as ...

This video uses Google Earth to trace the fall of the Aztec Empire in the early 16th century. By following the landscapes of ...

This week, dozens of media outlets declared that scientists had solved the mystery of what wiped out the Aztecs. Traces of a pathogen that can cause a typhoid-like enteric fever have been found in ...

Jan. 18 (UPI) --Scientists have uncovered new clues to the germs responsible for killing millions of native people in 16th century Mexico. Still, unanswered questions remain. In the century that ...

Scientists have shown that an obsidian hand-mirror once owned by the Renaissance polymath John Dee has Aztec origins, thus confirming a longstanding mystery. John Dee was quite the character. Born in ...

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO—According to a report by Agence France-Presse, archaeologists led by María de la Luz Escobedo of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History uncovered a stone dwelling ...

Disguised Mexica merchants in Tzinacantlan acquiring quetzal feathers in Book 9. (all images courtesy of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, and by permission of MiBACT) After centuries of ...

Dec. 31 (UPI) --A food source consumed by the Aztecs until the 16th century could bring new hope for people with high blood pressure, a study says. The findings, published in the journal Hypertension, ...

For more than two decades, leading Mexican archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma directed the excavations of the main Aztec temple, located in the ancient capital of Tenochtitlan, in what is now ...