Anthropologists have pieced together the grisly details of one of the most gruesome encounters between Spanish conquistadors and the Aztecs in late-16th century Mexico. In 2019 archaeologists at a ...

Four children in Mexico were buried in the years after the Spanish Conquest with rituals and grave offerings that suggest that pre-Hispanic customs lived on for some time after the Aztec empire fell.

MEXICO CITY — Archaeologists in Mexico City have unearthed the skulls and other bones of 15 people, most of them the children of traveling merchants during Aztec times. Researcher Alejandra Jasso Pena ...

Huei Tzompantli was a symbol of power and triumph during ancient wars Archaeologists recently unearthed 119 human skulls from the eastern side of the site Aztec tower of skulls was destroyed when ...

MEXICO CITY, June 29 (Reuters) - In the heart of Mexico City's bustling historic center, Mexican archaeologists have discovered the burial site of four Aztec children laid to rest some five centuries ...

For nearly five centuries, Huey Tzompantli, a tower of skulls from the victims of Aztec ritual sacrifice, has remained little more than an intriguing rumor. But a dig by archeologists in Mexico that ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found gruesome evidence of Spanish conquistadors slaughtering at least a dozen women and children in an Aztec village after the inhabitants sacrificed and ate Spaniards they had ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of 119 more men, women and children at the Aztec 'tower of skulls' under Mexico City - with many believed to have been victims of human sacrifice. The ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed the remains of dozens more Aztec men, women and children at a chilling “tower of skulls” in Mexico, The country’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) ...