An East San Jose artist is invoking an Aztec deity to keep a new fire station and its firefighters safe from harm. Artist ...

MEXICO CITY, Sept 29 (Reuters) - A museum exhibit displaying Aztec ritual offerings dug up from underneath downtown Mexico City opened on Friday in a first-ever showcase that offers new insight into ...

During periods of extreme drought and famine, the Aztecs sacrificed children to the god of rain. Mexico National Institute of Anthropology and History When cultures were still developing irrigation ...

A stone sculpture depicting Tlāloc, the rain god, is seen at the exhibition "Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler," at London's British Museum in 2009. (Lefteris Pitarakis / Associated Press) In a state crippled by ...

Archeologists said Friday that they had found lightning-bolt-shaped wooden scepters in a Mexican lake that match the description by Spanish priests and conquerors writing 500 years ago about offerings ...