The Aztecs - chocolate, gold and gory giggles.

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> To honor the spring god Xipe, Aztec priests flayed human beings and clad themselves in the tattered hides. This symbolized the new vegetation in which the earth clothes itself. > To honor the fire ...

Introducing Ehecatl, Ocelotl and Calli. Meet your new San Diego State Aztecs symbols. Wind, jaguar and house. On Thursday, the university formally unveiled the results of a six-year project to ...

A 1,200-pound stone head of an Aztec moon goddess has moved into the Getty Villa. So have life-size statues of a warrior adorned with eagle feathers, a duck-billed wind god and a demon known as the ...

Humanity has witnessed solar eclipses since there's been a humanity, but it's only since the scientific revolution that we've understood how to predict them. Prior to that, cultures around the world ...

Why did the Aztecs sacrifice humans to the gods? Learn more about what this ritual served, along with other purposes. The traditional accounts of Aztec sacrifice are almost too gory to be true. In ...

For more than two decades, leading Mexican archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma directed the excavations of the main Aztec temple, located in the ancient capital of Tenochtitlan, in what is now ...