The pinnacle of Aztec architecture was the Templo Mayor, a vast religious building – with a blood-soaked history. Jonathan Glancey investigates.

But the newly found pyramid is 100 to 200 years older. The scientists also found a sculpture of a god (representing either Tlaloc, a rain god, or Tezcatlipoca, god of the sky) and five skulls.

As it happens, enormous strides have been made in Aztec archaeology since the excavation, beginning in 1978, of the Templo Mayor or Great Pyramid, at Tenochtitlan, in Mexico City, so that now we ...

The Aztecs are believed to have cremated the remains of their leaders during their 1325-1521 rule, but the final resting place of the cremains has never been found.

Mesoamerica's ancient civilizations, from the Olmecs to the Aztecs, are filled with intrigue and mystery. These powerful ...

THE AZTEC society was vastly different to any found today, with archaeologists having found a "dark secret" within the Temple of Quetzalcoatl.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS discovered an astonishing array of human remains beneath an ancient Aztec pyramid in the city of Teotihuacan.

Researchers have discovered a new tunnel and a chamber hidden beneath an ancient pyramid in the archaeological site of Teotihuacan in modern-day Mexico.