At the height of their power, the Aztec Empire supported a population of ... how they could keep time using the Sun and the geography of the Valley of Mexico as guiding landmarks.

The discovery also sheds light on how the Aztec society evolved — introducing more standardized religion and control before the empire fell in 1521 — by showing how obsidian use changed over time.

The Aztecs dominated large parts of central Mexico between the 14th and 16th centuries until their empire was overthrown by invaders led by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, who captured ...

Their “Income and inequality in the Aztec Empire on the eve of the Spanish conquest”, has just been published on Nature Human Behaviour. Income distribution in present-day Mexico is ...

When Cortés and his conquistadors overran the Aztec empire in 1520, they found “a society unlike any they had encountered hitherto,” said Emily Sharpe in The Art Newspaper. The natives of the ...