The route from the land of the dead to San Andrés Mixquic, a little town just outside Mexico City, is lined with marigolds. Angel Jiménez del Aguila, who died in 2010, need only follow the trail of ...

Beneath the Church of Our Lady of Remedies in Mexico lies the world’s largest pyramid by volume, the Great Pyramid of Cholula. Built over centuries and layered with temples, it predates the Aztecs and ...

Explore the rich traditions of Mexico's Day of the Dead, a celebration that honors departed loved ones with altars, marigolds ...

In the history of the Mesoamerican civilizations, the Aztecs occupy a major position. A lot of their history is known to us, mostly because of their contact with the Spanish conquistadors. But we ...

The Aztecs were a native Mesoamerican culture that thrived in the forests, jungles, and plains of Central Mexico from 1300 until 1521, when their capital Tenochtitlan was seized by Hernán Cortés and ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Women in Mexico are buying chinampas, ancient Aztec island farms, to preserve a threatened ecosystem through ...

Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering a rare 112-million-year-old glimpse into life on the supercontinent ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Though the new animated feature “Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires” bears the name of one of the most emblematic ...

But tours will feature a variety of places like Xochimilco, where visitors can take a moonlit boat tour through its canals and chinampas, and Templo Mayor, the Aztec empire’s main religious and social ...

MEXICO CITY — Jasmín Ordóñez looks out from a wooden boat at the water as she crosses a narrow channel that connects a labyrinth of chinampas, island farms that were built by the Aztecs thousands of ...