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 ...

Archaeologists have excavated more sections of an extraordinary Aztec tower of human skulls under the centre of Mexico City. Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH ...

For the next 500 years, the skulls lay undisturbed underneath what was once the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, but is now Mexico City. Until, that is, a group of archaeologists began the painstaking ...

Our textbooks mainly teach us about how this dynamic civilization was the precursor to modern-day Mexico and what became of the Aztecs during and after European colonization.

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

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.

Families build an ofrenda made of flowers, photos, decorated skulls made of sugar ... Day of the Dead originated with the ancient Aztec civilization as they honored their loved ones and deities ...

The bottom line is that Día de los Muertos and its associated imagery, skulls and skeletons have become trendy and a prime opportunity ... Day of the Dead brings together the annual feasts for the ...

(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.

(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 ...