On the edge of Mexico City's famed Zócalo plaza ... earth goddess Tlaltecuhtli (pronounced tlal-TEK-tli)—the symbol of the Aztec life and death cycle, squatting to give birth while drinking ...

Mexico has amended its Constitution to recognise native corn as part of its national identity and has banned genetically ...

Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it became Mexico’s most beloved salamander and efforts to ...

Aztec society, whose powerful empire stretched over what is now southern Mexico from the 14th through 16th centuries, was suffused with religious customs. It was also highly practical and had ...

A national holiday in Mexico, Día de los Muertos mixes Catholic traditions with its Aztec roots in the celebration ... Here are six important symbols of Día de los Muertos.

In 1519 Hernan Cortés sailed from Cuba, landed in Mexico and made his way to the Aztec capital. Miguel Leon­Portilla, a Mexican anthropologist, gathered accounts by the Aztecs, some of which were ...