Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered a rare 1,600-year-old bronze pendant depicting the biblical King Solomon defeating the devil, potentially shedding light on ancient religious beliefs.

Four children in Mexico were buried in the years after the Spanish Conquest with rituals and grave offerings that suggest that pre-Hispanic customs lived on for some time after the Aztec empire fell.

Aztec duck-head pendants recovered from Tenochtitlán were made using volcanic glass called obsidian. - Mirsa Islas/Courtesy Proyecto Templo Mayor, INAH ...

CITY OF MEXICO, Oct. 29 -- Recently a number of remarkably well-executed Aztec idols have been received here from a village near Volcano Ajusco, which, it will be remembered, was once the most ...

MEXICO CITY — A tower of human skulls unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City has raised new questions about the culture of sacrifice in the Aztec Empire after crania of women and children ...

Aztec writing sometimes used different colours to refine a word's meaning: This page is from an early 16th century book about Aztec imperial taxation, the Matricula de Tributos, now in the ...