The cost of courage in Aztec Society -- 'Fierce and unnatural cruelty': Cortés and the conquest of Mexico -- Disciplining the Indians: Franciscan ideology and missionary violence in sixteenth-century ...

Video: The Aztec World — Elizabeth Brumfiel, professor of anthropology at Northwestern, provides an introduction to The Aztec World, a new exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago. Brumfiel served as ...

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 ...

The Aztecs, one of the most intriguing and sophisticated civilizations to have ever existed, left an indelible mark on Mexico’s cultural and historical landscape. Before their dramatic fall to Spanish ...

Spoiler alert: this touring show about the short-lived Aztec empire includes evidence of religious practices involving human sacrifice. A gatekeeper.Michael Clayton-Jones Aztec gods required regular ' ...

Over 500 years ago, a young woman was buried in the holiest temple of the ancient Aztec city Tenochtitlan. She was surely an elite member of her society, based on the location of her grave. But the ...

The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in Central Mexico in the period between 1300 to 1521. They were made up of multiple different ethnic groups of the region, especially those who ...

Flipping the pages of history, the name of Pierre Clement Laussat (1756-1835) holds an important place as the French diplomat representing France in the Dec. 20, 1803, transfer of Louisiana to the ...

It united warfare and agriculture under one roof. Military campaigns were justified as offerings to him, ensuring the sun would rise again and Aztec society would thrive. Festivals such as the Tōxcatl ...