In another special episode looking back at history, Venetia Rainey talks with the author of ‘Fifth Sun: A New History of the ...

An indigenous Mexican nation has written to the Assemblée Nationale seeking the return of its codex, arguing that the ...

Aztec god of war What happened to the French evacuation plane that was shot at? Why was the French evacuation plane shot at? How many people died? Isra ...

They are believed to form part of the Huey Tzompantli, a skull rack some 60 metres (200ft) in diameter which stood on the corner of the chapel of Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of the sun ...

dressed to resemble the Aztec war god and solar deity, and a set of flint knives elaborately decorated with mother of pearl and precious stones. The offerings were deposited by Aztec priests over ...

Tenochtitlán, the great city of the Aztecs, was the creation of war, and war was its dynamic. In the title work of this compelling collection of essays, Inga Clendinnen reconstructs the sequence of ...