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 ...

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Archaeologists have excavated more sections of an extraordinary Aztec tower of human skulls under the centre of Mexico City. Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH ...

The turquoise of her cloak signifies divinity and sky to the Aztec. The glyph of a four-petaled flower in the center of her rose-colored tunic supposedly means that she is the god bearer.

The altar dates back to the time after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán. Experts say it was located in a courtyard inside a home of an Aztec family, who would have used it ...

the Virgin Mary appeared to a young Aztec man whom the Spaniards called Juan Diego. She asked him to trust in her, and she miraculously imprinted her image on his cloak. A church was built on the ...

Meaning “beloved” or “bird” in Arabic, this would be a perfect name for your beloved baby girl. The Etruscan goddess of love ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Brazil formally received on Thursday the return from Denmark of an Indigenous cloak made with 4,000 red feathers of the scarlet ibis bird, a sacred mantle that ...

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the Virgin Mary appeared to a young Aztec man whom the Spaniards called Juan Diego. She asked him to trust in her, and she miraculously imprinted her image on his cloak. A church was built on the ...