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 ...

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.

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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 centuries ago. MEXICO CITY, June 29 ...

Aztec religiosity was deeply tied to natural ... Many of these ceremonies culminated in the sacrifice of children personified as tlaloques, the assistants of Tlaloc. Physical anthropologist ...

Y. Tribune. I have been grossly and repeatedly assailed in the columns of the Herald, as an imposter and falsifier in the matter of the Aztec Children, now exhibiting in this City. View Full Artic ...

The discovery of the graves of four pre-Hispanic Mexican children has given an insight into the difficult living conditions that followed the fall of the Aztec Empire. Named after the property ...