the Aztec god of war. The Aztecs made human sacrifices to the deity, who was also the god of the Sun. The boy was wearing a wooden disk that symbolizes Huitzilopochtli and a necklace constructed ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Robyn by emailing [email protected] A huge offering of over 160 starfish was made to an Aztec war god over 500 years ago, archeological findings in ...

The artifacts were discovered at Templo Mayor, the primary temple of the Aztecs in what is now Mexico City. An Aztec offering discovered at the Templo Mayor in Mexico City. Courtesy of the ...

INAH Archaeologists conducting excavations at the Templo Mayor in Mexico City have found more than 160 starfish deposited as part of an offering to the Aztec war god Huītzilōpōchtli some 700 ...

Scottie is a Newsweek science fellow and student at the University of Florida. Her work has appeared in Women's Health, the Gainesville Sun and WUFT, an NPR-PBS affiliate. Mexican excavators ...

The tower sat on the edge of the Templo Mayor, a temple devoted to the Aztec god of sun, war, and human sacrifice. While its existence has been talked about since the conquest of Hernan Cortes ...

Archeologists have made a disturbing discovery of an Aztec tower of human skulls containing sacrificed women and children's heads ...

In fact, the mask's raised turquoise may depict the wart-faced god Nanahuatzin, who, according to Aztec mythology, sacrificed himself to the fire and emerged to become the sun.

but according to ancient accounts one of these Aztec groups, known as the Mexica, founded Tenochtitlán in 1325. The legend continues that Huitzilopochtli, the god of war, the sun and human ...