In the Aztec writing system, 10-Rabbit is 1502—the year, according to the codices surviving from the era, that the empire's most feared ruler, Ahuitzotl (pronounced ah-WEE-tzohtl), was laid to ...

In 2006, a huge monolith of the Aztec earth goddess was found nearby with an inscription corresponding to the year 1502, which is when the empire's greatest ruler and the last of the brothers ...

like other sacred Aztec buildings, was razed by the Spanish conquistadors. Axayácatl reigned between 1469 and 1481 and was the father of Montezuma, one of the empire's last rulers. "Below the ...

This empire had been created only in the 1430s ... Turquoise was also a key element in the regalia of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II, who conducted great rites of human sacrifice wearing a turquoise ...

Between 1345 and 1521 C.E., the Aztec Empire flourished in what is now central and southern Mexico. The Aztecs were highly advanced in agriculture and trade, largely thanks to an elite group of ...