The bar was originally discovered in 1981 during a construction project in Mexico City, which was built on the ruins of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan A new scientific analysis of a large gold bar ...

Explosive Discoveries: In Utah, the Dillmans must tread carefully to avoid triggering an Aztec water trap. The Villescas family discover more secrets beneath the Fire ...

"The Aztec didn't impose their religion. They just wanted the products." Not even gold held as much significance among the Mesoamerican peoples as jade, which represented fertility—and which in ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. The price of gold today, as of 8:17 am ET, was $2,652 per ounce. That’s up 0.34% from yesterday’s gold price of $2,643.

Legend has it that 500 years ago a vast fortune in gold was hidden by the Aztecs somewhere in the American southwest. Now, three families are closing in on what they believe is the location of the ...

Legend has it that 500 years ago a vast fortune in gold was hidden by the Aztecs somewhere in the American southwest. Now, three families are closing in on what they believe is the location of the ...

Gold has been on a remarkable journey this year, surpassing expectations and hitting new price milestones. Investors have turned to this traditional safe haven to hedge against inflation, pushing ...

This small gold model of a llama is a fitting offering ... if you compare them in the map with the Aztecs, it’s like four of five times more than the other big empire in the Americas.

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 ...

In Fifth Sun, she writes an informative historical account that is a complex and captivating revisionist history of the Aztecs, drawn solely from their own texts, told in their own words ...

Centuries-old codices from what is now Mexico hold a wealth of knowledge about the Aztecs in their native language, including ...