A feathered serpent bares its teeth at the site of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan, in Mexico City. The massive temple complex was dedicated to Tlaloc, god of rain, and to Huitzilopochtli, god of ...

Barrera said accounts from the 1500s suggested the platform was also used in a colourful ceremony in which an Aztec priest would descend from the nearby pyramid with a snake made of paper and burn it ...

At its heart lies the myth of the Plumed Serpent, or Quetzalcoatl--central to the Maya, Aztec, Toltec, Zapotec, Mixtec and nearly every other formative Mexican culture--whose temples, sculptures ...

Putting the "psycho" in acoustics Why Aztec “death whistles” sound like human screams The basic mechanism relies on the Venturi effect, producing a unique rough and piercing sound.

But, if the temple’s snake arch wasn’t destroyed by the Spaniards, it may still lie buried beneath a row of buildings behind the Metropolitan Cathedral, awaiting discovery. 16 Guatemala Street ...

Aztec society was highly structured, with a rigid class system at its core. At the top was the emperor, believed to be a descendant of the gods and the supreme ruler.

Diego Delso/Wikimedia Commons The Temple of the Feathered Serpent in the ancient city of Teotihuacán dates back to the second century C.E. and is decorated with plumed snake heads. Around 1000 C.E., ...

Credits: Canva Around 1325 C.E., the Aztec or Mexica people constructed Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. Legend has it that the Mexica, under the guidance of their god Huitzilopochtli, ...

The snake was removed from its original site through a crane. When discovered, it was 4.5 meters deep within the Tenochtitlan site – the ancient capital of the Aztec empire located at the site ...