When Cortés and his conquistadors overran the Aztec empire in 1520, they found “a society unlike any they had encountered hitherto,” said Emily Sharpe in The Art Newspaper. The natives of the region ...

CHICAGO (AP) _ An ambitious new exhibition at the Field Museum reassembles some fragments of a world that was shattered forever on Aug. 31, 1521. That was when the small Spanish army of conquistador ...

The artifacts were discovered at Templo Mayor, the primary temple of the Aztecs in what is now Mexico City. An Aztec offering discovered at the Templo Mayor in Mexico City. Courtesy of the Mexican ...

DETROIT, MI –– To honor the beginning of Latino Heritage Month, Brush Street in downtown Detroit transformed into a fiesta. Hundreds of people filled the street visiting different vendors at the Plaza ...

A pre-Columbian wall painting discovered in a convent in Tepotzlán could shed light on the relationship between Mexico’s Indigenous inhabitants and the Catholic church, which sought to control ...

Central to Aztec creation myth and Mayan mythology, he co-created the earth and resurrected human life by molding bones with his own blood. His influence permeated education, art, and civic ideals ...