The real history of human sacrifice.

An Aztec burial mask housed in the British Museum, crafted from a mosaic of precious stones, depicts a face with boils.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Freedom is developing a film based on Simon Goddard’s book Simply Thrilled, which charts the “preposterous story” of the short ...

Dead Funny History: The Aztecs. Join historian Greg Jenner for a funny and fascinating family adventure into the world of the Aztecs, an extraordinary civilisation of gods, gold, chocolate and… the ...

Archaeologists working in Mexico City have discovered an Aztec monolith, the most important ruins of the ancient civilisation to be found in decades. The monolith and an altar, dating from the 15th ...