Others think they may be relics from the legendary island of Atlantis or proof that extraterrestrials visited the Aztec sometime before the Spanish conquest. Stories about the skulls focus heavily ...

The Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan had a large bone rack, called a tzompantli, that stored thousands of human skulls. And ...

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The bones, skulls and skeletons that are so iconic of Day of the Dead are fundamentally indigenous, too. Many Aztecs gods were depicted as skeletal. Other deities wore bones as clothing or jewelry.

As owners of Forty Three Skulls in Appleton, an oddities shop, they live among items that would frighten many of us. But to them and the thousands who follow them on social media, those items are ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ezekiel Stear, Auburn University (THE CONVERSATION) Every year, five hours west of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Every year, five hours west of Mexico City on Lake Pátzcuaro in Michoacán, residents flock to the island of Janitzio to visit the graves of their departed relatives.