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The sacrifice of at least 42 children in Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, was an effort to calm the anger of the Aztec rain god during a devastating drought, researchers have revealed.

For the Aztec community in the Basin of Mexico in the mid-15th century ... Half of the months that made up the agricultural ...

With a love of human sacrifice, warfare, and towers made out of human skulls, the ancient Aztecs certainly knew how to have ...

Other deities wore bones as clothing or jewelry. The Aztecs, who engaged in ritual human sacrifice, even used human bones to make musical instruments. The Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan had a ...

The Aztecs honored many of their sacrificial victims before these rituals with days of feasting, fine clothes, luxury lodging and other pleasures. Each year, during the festival of ...

(The Conversation) — The Aztecs deliberated on how to continue their traditions and preserve their group identity following the Spanish invasion. (The Conversation) — Every year, five hours ...

Archaeologists and historians know relatively little about the details of the month-long celebration of Mictecacihuatl, but say it likely involved burning incense, song and dance, and blood sacrifice ...