In the Florentine Codex, missionary Bernardino de Sahagún famously documented the existence of the ...

CALPULALPAN, Mexico — Skeletons found at an unearthed site in Mexico show Aztecs captured, ritually sacrificed and partially ate several hundred people traveling with invading Spanish forces in 1520.

According to tradition, the Aztec god of the sun and war, Huitzilopochtli (whose name in Náhuatl means "left-handed hummingbird" or "hummingbird of the south"), commanded the Aztecs to leave their ...

Sobek, crocodile-headed god of the Nile; Sekhmet, leonine goddess of war; Anubis, jackal god of the underworld; and Hathor, mother goddess with a cow’s horns: The ancient Egyptian pantheon of gods was ...

Navigating the divine power order shows the delicate balance between the “Big Three” and the rest of the pantheon, explaining why some names strike more fear into the hearts of monsters than others.

Mexican archaeologists have discovered a 39-inch-long sawfish blade at the bottom of a stone box packed with thousands of other ceremonial objects at the Aztec religious complex in Mexico City known ...

A series of stones carved with images of snakes, warriors, and headless prisoners has been found at the sacred Aztec site of Tenochtitlan in Mexico City's historic center. The 25 images, carved from ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Each part introduces a new Joestar protagonist, each with their own distinct personality and ...

Noting that animals were seen by the Aztecs as “food for the gods”, he explains that the Totocalli was no ordinary zoo, and ...

Host Scott Carter, an award-winning executive producer and writer, known for his work on Real Time with Bill Maher and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, explores codes of religious, cultural and ...