The Aztec Empire may have ended centuries ago, but its presence is far from gone. It lingers in temple ruins, place names, and bits of language and folklore. Walk through Mexico City nowadays, and you ...

Hygiene and ritual marked every moment of life for pregnant Aztec women. The tlamatlquiticitl—midwife—offered those in her charge a remarkable 16th-century birthing plan, combining practical ...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo helped invade the Aztec city in the 1520s ... but it’s never far from daily life. And it will take much more than wind to blow away the relics that sleep beneath ...

Early in the Aztecs’ history, obsidian for ritual and everyday objects came from limited sources. But after the Aztec Empire defeated the Tepanecs from Azcapotzalco and began imperial expansion ...