Seeing La Llorona up close means death will shortly follow - but who was the wailing woman who now haunts Xochimilco?

One of the most classic places to visit in Mexico City is Xochimilco. Since 1930, they’ve been offering tourist trips in trajineras through more than 184 kilometers of waters that integrate the ...

Present-day Mexico City bears little resemblance to the ancient water world of Tenochtitlan. The Aztecs built their capital of palaces and pyramids atop an island in a giant lake, using a complex ...

High in the Indian Himalayas, a remote lake nestled in a snowy valley is strewn with hundreds of human skeletons. Roopkund Lake is located 5,029 metres (16,500ft) above sea level at the bottom of ...

Chased off from one Basin of Mexico settlement after another, they at last happened upon an island in Lake Texcoco that no one else wanted and in 1325 proclaimed it Tenochtitlan. Little more than ...

Spanish forces and their Indigenous allies captured Tenochtitlán in 1521, bringing the Aztec Empire’s reign to a close after less than a century. The White House, whose cornerstone was laid in 1792, ...

Some will shock you, while others will delight you. The Aztec Empire was full of interesting daily tidbits that we never learned about in school.

In addition, cleanliness, education and knowledge were an essential part of the citizens of Tenochtitlan. The city was located on an islet, which was in the middle of Lake Texcoco, located in the ...

The technique, using thousands of laser pulses sent from a plane, can detect variations in topography that are not evident to ...

With all of the noteworthy landmarks and landscapes the U.S. has to offer, including its world-famous beaches, mountains and metropolises, the country's variety of lake destinations can sometimes ...

Known as the Huey Tzompantli, the skull rack stood on the corner of the chapel of Huitzilopochtli, the patron of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. The Aztecs were a group of Nahuatl-speaking peoples ...

The Mexican Archaeology magazine of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) emphasizes that the peoples of Mexico-Tenochtitlan stood out for “efficiently taking advantage of ...