The exhibitions of ancient art that pass through New York, especially those at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, often have a High Church atmosphere. Scholar-monks add to the storehouse of knowledge ...

AZTEC LIFE ILLUSTRATED; Significance of the Exhibit of Ancient Mexican Art. MYSTERY OF THE CODICES As Represented in American Museum, Scholars May Decipher Them -- Forbidding Sacrificial Stones.

Swiss and Norwegian neuroscientists have discovered that the ancient Aztec death whistle -- often credited with emitting the scariest sound on earth -- still terrifies people today due to a primal ...

Known as the "Aztec death whistle," this object is an ancient Mesoamerican wind instrument typically crafted into the shape of a skull. While experts aren't sure what the whistle would have ...

A team of cognitive neuroscientists at the University of Zurich, has found that ancient Aztec "skull whistles" found in gravesites are able to instill fear in modern people. In their study ...

In the European mind, circa 1520, the Aztec empire resonated with the ancient Roman empire. What better place to ponder the connection than the Getty Villa, with its European antiquities housed in ...

The story behind the ambitious exhibition "We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art" at LACMA.

In a major discovery, archaeologists in Mexico have excavated a 500-year-old Aztec offering filled with over 160 starfish and the skeleton of a jaguar with a spear in its claw.

A new cableway and hundreds of giant murals have brightened lives in Iztapalapa, Mexico City’s most populous neighborhood, but poverty and attacks against women are still pervasive.

"The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire," opening at the Getty Villa in Malibu, Calif., shows the Aztecs through their conquerors' eyes.

A striking 600-year-old Aztec sculpture depicting a golden eagle has been uncovered in an ancient temple in Mexico, archaeologists with Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History ...

Before visiting Mexico City, it is good to have a basic understanding of Aztec culture. Start learning with these 10 facts about Aztec history.