A giant Millennium Falcon made of clay and other cool sculptures are on display at the abandoned Ford assembly plant in Arabi ...

In contemporary culture, they're the focus of numerous historical studies, films, books, visual works of art and other media ...

Vividly illustrated with over 2,000 drawings, the General History of the Things of New Spain, compiled by Brother Bernardino de Sahagún in the 16th century, was a complete survey of Aztec culture.

Tenochtitlan became a mercantile powerhouse as well as a cultural one—"the richest art center at that time, as Paris and New York would be later," says López Luján. The Aztec bling became part ...

including the famous Aztec Calendar Stone, known as Piedra del Sol, as well as the ancient statue of Xochipilli, the Aztec god of art, games, beauty, dance and maize (among others). The museum ...

In research by Mexican art dealers Carlos and Leticia Noyola ... of the sun god Tonatiuh at the center of the celebrated Aztec calendar stone, an emblem of Mexican identity then enshrined in ...

She was celebrated throughout the entire ninth month of the Aztec calendar, a 20-day month that corresponded roughly to late July and early August. Aztec mythology tells that Mictecacihuatl was ...

Author DBC Pierre travels through Mexico on a personal odyssey to recount the fate of the Aztec civilization. In this extract, he investigates the unfolding of a legendary doomsday prophecy.

Each year, during the festival of Miccailhuitontli, the “little feast of the dead” in the ninth month of the Aztec calendar, children were ritually ... While the friars did not plan to draw on ...

Running from the end of October until the official holiday, the annual L.A. celebration for departed loved ones incorporates ...

The Aztec, who referred to themselves as the Mexica, began as a group of nomadic peoples who settled on Lake Texcoco in central Mexico around the year 1325. After introducing the reader to the ...

The main park in Mexico City, Bosque de Chapultepec (Chapultepec Forest) was once the temporary home of the Aztec empire after ... everything from souvenirs to art to snacks.