The remains of a major Aztec temple and a ceremonial ball court have been discovered in downtown Mexico City, shedding new light on the sacred spaces of the metropolis that Spanish conquerors overran ...

Beneath a 1950s hotel, and adjacent to colonial-era Catholic cathedral, archaeologists have discovered the long-lost ruins of a once magnificent circular Aztec temple dedicated to the wind god Ehecatl ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) – Archaeologists have found a massive stone slab covering the tomb of one of the first Catholic priests in Mexico following the 1521 Spanish conquest, a grave sunk into the floor of ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — – Archaeologists have found the main trophy rack of sacrificed human skulls at Mexico City's Templo Mayor Aztec ruin site, scientists said Thursday. Racks known as "tzompantli" were ...

An ancient ceremonial ball court and an Aztec temple dedicated to the wind god Ehécatl have been identified in what is now a modern section of Mexico City. The 118-foot-long (36 meters) temple and ...

More than 100 human skulls have been discovered in the Huei Tzompantl, a macabre skull tower near an Aztec temple. (all images courtesy of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, INAH) ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Mark Stevenson, The Associated Press MEXICO CITY — Plans to expand a hotel in Mexico City have been put on hold after archaeologists unearthed a 1400s-era ...

Aztec priests at Tenochtitlán offered a whole galaxy of starfish to the war god Huitzilopochtli 700 years ago, along with a trove of other objects from the distant edges of the Aztec Empire.

The remains of a major Aztec temple and a ceremonial ball court have been discovered in downtown Mexico City, shedding new light on the sacred spaces of the metropolis that Spanish conquerors overran ...

50 skulls found at one sacrificial stone Five found buried, originally hung on skull rack Found at temple that dates back over 500 years MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican archaeologists said Friday they ...