In Mexico City, a 700-year-old Aztec farming technique is giving a sustainable edge to modern agriculture. It was early on a Sunday morning, and I was in the Floating Gardens of Xochimilco, 28km ...

Some will shock you, while others will delight you. The Aztec Empire was full of interesting daily tidbits that we never learned about in school.

An Aztec manuscript from the 16th century is the first 'written' evidence of earthquakes in the Americas. It shows 12 events depicted in a pre-Hispanic system of symbols and colors.

The collection of ahuautle or water amaranth, known as “Mexican caviar” for its intense but delicate flavor, is threatened by the drying out of Lake Texcoco.

THE mystery of an ancient 3,000-year-old “door to hell” dedicated to an Aztec god has been solved after it was stolen from a hidden cave. The Mexican artefact, called the Olmec Cave Mas… ...

On that night, known to the Spanish as "La Noche Triste" or the "Night of Sadness," many of the Spanish soldiers drowned when their vessel sank in a now dried-up canal that fed into Lake Texcoco.

The Aztecs built what was to become the capital of their empire on a small island in the Lake of Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. Testimonies from the time of the arrival of the Spanish conquerors at ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 1,500-year-old Teotihuacan village in Mexico City, complete with large concentrations of ceramics and three human burials, Mexico’s National Institute of History ...

Archaeologists conducting excavations at the Templo Mayor, or Great Temple, in Mexico City (once home to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán) have discovered a 600-year-old sculpture of a golden ...

In Mexico City, a 700-year-old Aztec farming technique is giving a sustainable edge to modern agriculture. Hundreds of tourists throng the canals of Xochimilco every weekend for a flamboyant ...