Woman long blamed for the fall of Aztec empire is now being viewed in a different light - She’s long be blamed for the fall ...

Video: The Aztec World — Elizabeth Brumfiel, professor of anthropology at Northwestern, provides an introduction to The Aztec World, a new exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago. Brumfiel served as ...

Aztec Club member David Gooch, of Galatoire’s, and his fiancée, Julie Nuzum, toasted guests as they arrived with Taittinger Champagne. The event was organized by Aztec Club national President Carlo ...

The cost of courage in Aztec Society -- 'Fierce and unnatural cruelty': Cortés and the conquest of Mexico -- Disciplining the Indians: Franciscan ideology and missionary violence in sixteenth-century ...

Over 500 years ago, a young woman was buried in the holiest temple of the ancient Aztec city Tenochtitlan. She was surely an elite member of her society, based on the location of her grave. But the ...

Aztec adults also firmly believed in the divine supervision of childbirth, and that from the moment of conception, a fetus’s healthy development depended on the will of the gods. Aztec society, whose ...

In Mexico, traditionally women did not inherit chinampas, island farms first built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago ...

Young Aspirations/Young Artists had a recent date with the calendar and tallied 30 years. To celebrate those three decades of creativity and to honor founder Jana Napoli, they amassed a slew of ...

STAMFORD — Early on in “The History Makers,” Stamford native Val Bodurtha’s young adult novel set in a modern-day Aztec empire, the book’s protagonist celebrates her 17th birthday as one does in ...