The artifact, among the most prized visual accounts of Aztec history, will be on display in Mexico City for three months ...

Maize dishes, lake foods, seeds, and carefully prepared drinks reveal the variety of the Aztec kitchen.

The Aztec, a collective of Mesoamericans who thrived from the 14th to the 16th centuries, were the inheritors of ancient ...

Aztec writing sometimes used different colours to refine a word's meaning: This page is from an early 16th century book about Aztec imperial taxation, the Matricula de Tributos, now in the National ...

Aztec Network aims to be quantum-proof by 2030, revealing a two-phase roadmap to guard against harvest-now-decrypt-later ...

The excavation of a sacred pyramid is turning up clues to the empire’s bloody rituals—but so far, no sign of its most feared emperor.

Before their defeat by the Spanish in 1521, the triple alliance ruled Mesoamerica through complex trade networks—and warfare. The Mexica priest Cuauhtlequetzqui points out the place where his people ...

October 2, 2026OverviewIn this episode of the Dwarkesh Podcast, we welcome military historian and professor Cy Shepard to ...

The Azcatitlan Codex, a rare manuscript that recounts the founding of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and the subsequent ...