MEXICO CITY, June 29 (Reuters) - In the heart of Mexico City's bustling historic center, Mexican archaeologists have discovered the burial site of four Aztec children laid to rest some five ...

Four children in Mexico were buried in the years after the Spanish Conquest with rituals and grave offerings that suggest that pre-Hispanic customs lived on for some time after the Aztec empire fell.

Archeologists have made a disturbing discovery of an Aztec tower of human skulls containing sacrificed women and children's ...

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in what is believed to have been a traditional Aztec home dating between 1521 and ... conquistadors took over Mexico-Tenochtitlan The four children were buried in a traditional pre-Hispanic ...

Where do babies come from? The Aztecs’ answer to the classic child’s question was that they came from the 13th heaven—the highest heaven of all. Here, in this store of unborn souls ...

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After the Spanish conquered the Aztec capital in 1521, they pushed the Indigneous Mexica population to the edges of the city. The children are thought to have been buried between 1521 and 1620 ...

An ancient ceremonial ball court and an Aztec temple dedicated to the wind ... representing about 30 individuals, all infants and children, INAH officials said in the statement.