Francisco Barragan had been grieving his mother’s death and subsequent sense of loneliness for nearly a year when his Aztec-language teacher offered a different perspective. From the basement of an ...

It is clear that the sprawling city of Teotihuacan near Mexico City was a major metropolis of the ancient world, but what do ...

Nahuatl, the language of the ancient Aztec civilization spoken today by the Nahua people in southern Mexico, has made a surprisingly profound impact on several languages, including English and Spanish ...

Growing up in the United States, I remember on Halloween my mother used to say, “Honey, this is not just a day for costumes and candy. You must also remember your relatives. Know their names.” She ...

MEXICO CITY, July 18 (Reuters) - The legendary story of the fierce Aztec ruler who briefly routed Spanish invaders five centuries ago took center stage this week at one of the modern Mexican capital's ...

The Aztec civilization, flourishing in central Mexico from the 14th to the 16th centuries, was rich in mythology and religious traditions. Their pantheon of gods and goddesses governed every aspect of ...

The Aztec Empire was a fascinating Mesoamerican civilization, which, at the height of its power, spanned tens of thousands of ...

We don’t call certain works of fiction “historical novels” because they take “novel” detours from historical fact. But, it seems, we might. In Larry McMurtry’s classic western, Lonesome Dove (1985), a ...

It seems by now that the end of the world will not occur today. Thank goodness. It would have ruined Christmas. (BTW there was never any eschatological mention of an end day; the date 2012 was ...

The ancient manuscript rested on the shelves of the Newberry Library for more than a century. Little was known about the bound book from colonial Mexico that had been donated to the library in 1911 by ...

David Vazquez, center, hosted a Nahuatl exhibition in 2017 at the Episcopal Church of the Messiah in Santa Ana. (Courtesy of Episcopal Church of the Messiah) Francisco Barragan had been grieving his ...