People lived in huts, and the temple for Huitzilopochtli ... Elizabeth Boone in her book "Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs" (University of Texas Press ...

Temple 7.0 The temple began as a modest structure in the 1300s, but as the Mexica, the ethnic group that came to rule the Aztec Empire, amassed wealth and territory, they enlarged the monument. By the ...

which is the principal temple in the ancient Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan in the heart of Mexico City. Of these, around 90 percent came from an outcrop in the Sierra de Pachuca, which was prized ...

The inside is covered in cinnabar, a brick-red mineral that contains ... was the Aztec "new fire" god. The Aztecs kept a "holy fire" continuously burning in the Fire Temple at Tenochtitlan ...

The artifacts examined in the study were uncovered during excavations that took place over decades from the main Aztec temple of Tenochtitlán, called the Templo Mayor, in what is now Mexico City.

Archaeologists have discovered numerous ceramic or clay whistles at Aztec sites ... at the base of the main stairway of a temple dedicated to the wind god Ehecatl. The skeleton was clutching ...