Day of the Dead might sound like a solemn affair, but Mexico’s famous holiday is actually a lively commemoration of the departed. The nationwide festivities, which include a massive parade in Mexico ...

"Part of the recovering languages and literacies of the Americas publication initiative." "Following their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But ...

The Egyptian sun god Ra was said to sail his boat across the sky by day and carry it back through the underworld by night. This depiction of Ra is from the tomb of Nefertari. The Aztec sun god ...

Day of the Dead might sound like a solemn affair, but Mexico's famous holiday is actually a lively commemoration of the departed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

When Cortés and his conquistadors overran the Aztec empire in 1520, they found “a society unlike any they had encountered hitherto,” said Emily Sharpe in The Art Newspaper. The natives of the region ...

The Aztec gods were easy to please. Subjects need only live, serve and obey. Until the gods demanded death, in return for new life. The bloody rise and fall of the Mesoamerican empire, and the gods ...

Ancient civilizations often used gods to explain the various facets of weather and nature. According to mythology, Aurora renews herself each morning as the sun rises, marking the start of a new day.