Known as the "Aztec death whistle," this object is an ancient Mesoamerican wind instrument typically crafted into the shape of a skull. While experts aren't sure what the whistle would have ...

A priest saved the stone from destruction after it was unearthed in Mexico City in the late 1700s. Scholars found that it was carved during the short reign of Tizoc, the seventh Aztec tlatoani ...

A bounty of Aztec treasures has been discovered by a set of temple steps in Mexico City, Mexico, that archaeologists believe were laid by priests over 520 years ago.

The traditional accounts of Aztec sacrifice are almost too gory to be true. In them, Aztec priests cut beating hearts from the chests of sacrificial victims before throwing them down the steep steps ...

Once every 52 years, Aztec priests let the fire die out. The high priest, wearing a turquoise mask representing Xiuhtecuhtli, would then perform a Xiuhtlalpilli, or "new fire ceremony", which ...

He notes that the Spanish priests objected to the Aztec religious content in the codices. A model of reconstructed Tenochtitlán is featured at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.