Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires doesn't debut in movie theaters in Mexico (where it is titled Batman Azteca: Choque de Imperios) until September 18th (and it will then debut on HBO Max at a later date) ...

Learn more about the tragic fall of the Aztec Empire and how found artifacts are helping to restore pieces of the past. The Aztec Empire was one of the largest cities in the world toward the end of ...

Aztec writing sometimes used different colours to refine a word's meaning: This page is from an early 16th century book about Aztec imperial taxation, the Matricula de Tributos, now in the National ...

One of the most significant and troubling anniversaries in the history of Christianity is ap­proaching. February 2019 marks the quincentennial of the arrival of Hernán Cortés in the land of Mexico, an ...

Carved from wood more than five centuries ago, a small skull faced mask held today at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore once gave physical form to one of the most feared and revered deities in the ...

Before their defeat by the Spanish in 1521, the triple alliance ruled Mesoamerica through complex trade networks—and warfare. The Mexica priest Cuauhtlequetzqui points out the place where his people ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — It was not a typical evening at the theater in Connecticut's capital as even the normally staid pre-show announcement drew cheers. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

This story appears in the November 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the edge of Mexico City's famed Zócalo plaza, next to the ruins of the Aztec sacred pyramid known as the Templo Mayor, ...