Explore the history of the Aztecs, their incredible achievements in art, architecture, and warfare, as well as the factors that led to their decline. --- For more videos from Smithsonian Magazine ...

an event that included a seven-month siege and culminated in a rare Aztec defeat. A lidar image of Guiengola’s epicentre, where the elite structures are located Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis ...

Hygiene and ritual marked every moment of life for pregnant Aztec women. The tlamatlquiticitl—midwife—offered those in her charge a remarkable 16th-century birthing plan, combining practical ...