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A team of researcher unearthed what could be the largest collection of pre-Colombian skulls ever found in a once-sacred temple. The finding reveals new ways the pre-Colombian civilization used skulls ...

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MEXICO CITY (AP) – Archaeologists have found a massive stone slab covering the tomb of one of the first Catholic priests in Mexico following the 1521 Spanish conquest, a grave sunk into the floor of ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico is building a towering replica of the Templo Mayor, the Aztec civilisation's most sacred site, in the downtown of Mexico City to mark 500 years since the Spanish ...

Aztec priests at Tenochtitlán offered a whole galaxy of starfish to the war god Huitzilopochtli 700 years ago, along with a trove of other objects from the distant edges of the Aztec Empire.