The cost of courage in Aztec Society -- 'Fierce and unnatural cruelty': Cortés and the conquest of Mexico -- Disciplining the Indians: Franciscan ideology and missionary violence in sixteenth-century ...

Video: The Aztec World — Elizabeth Brumfiel, professor of anthropology at Northwestern, provides an introduction to The Aztec World, a new exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago. Brumfiel served as ...

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 ...

Spoiler alert: this touring show about the short-lived Aztec empire includes evidence of religious practices involving human sacrifice. A gatekeeper.Michael Clayton-Jones Aztec gods required regular ' ...

There’s an idea in Mexico that racism doesn’t exist, that all Mexicans are “mestizo” – a homogenous blend of Spanish and indigenous. But cultural worker José Antonio Aguilar says racism is lived by ...

It united warfare and agriculture under one roof. Military campaigns were justified as offerings to him, ensuring the sun would rise again and Aztec society would thrive. Festivals such as the Tōxcatl ...

Over 500 years ago, a young woman was buried in the holiest temple of the ancient Aztec city Tenochtitlan. She was surely an elite member of her society, based on the location of her grave. But the ...

Flipping the pages of history, the name of Pierre Clement Laussat (1756-1835) holds an important place as the French diplomat representing France in the Dec. 20, 1803, transfer of Louisiana to the ...