The Aztec Empire was one of the most powerful civilizations in pre-Columbian America. Its cities, engineering, and ...

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In the Florentine Codex, missionary Bernardino de Sahagún famously documented the existence of the ...

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, was speaking at a political rally near a train station in the city of Nara ...

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Noting that animals were seen by the Aztecs as “food for the gods”, he explains that the Totocalli was no ordinary zoo, and ...

The remains of Heliopolis—including its only remaining obelisk—are surrounded by the Cairo neighborhood of Matariya. For more than two millennia, Heliopolis was the center of Egyptian ...