The Wall has grown in significance because it is all that remains of the Temple and because Jews were (and still are) denied the right to pray on the Temple Mount. The Kotel became precious because it ...

Archaeologists found that while the Mexica primarily used green obsidian, obsidian also came from at least seven other ...

The Aztecs didn't discover obsidian. It was already the most common raw material in Mesoamerica when they arrived in the ...

The Aztec Empire may have ended centuries ago, but its presence is far from gone. It lingers in temple ruins, place names, ...

That includes ancient Egypt, as well as ancient Greek, Vedic, Maya, Inca, and Aztec cultures. The Urarina people who live in the Peruvian Amazon Basin still use a psychoactive brew called ayahuasca in ...

Karni Mata Mandir in Deshnoke, Rajasthan, is a unique temple. It is home to thousands of rats. These rats are not pests but sacred beings. Devotees revere them as reincarnations of Karni Mata's ...

Then, see inside the Templo Mayor, the Aztec temple of skulls that terrified Spanish conquistadors. A writer and editor based in Charleston, South Carolina and an assistant editor at All That's ...

X [1] user @stgggs posted a photoshopped image of an Aztec temple surrounded by a red sky. A box surrounds the top of the temple and points to the bottom half of the image, which shows Nikocado ...

The first whistle was recovered in the ancient Tlatelolco temple, which was devoted to the Aztec god of wind ... sound tool compared to ancient and contemporary music instruments. Inside the chamber, ...

During the festival of Toxcatl, the people of Tenochtitlán honored the god Tezcatlipoca, and Aztec noblemen and warriors celebrated in the Great Temple. Spanish soldiers ... and building a tunnel ...

The Aztec, Incan and Mayan empires left behind ... which the Mayans knew as Lakamha ('Big Waters'). Deep inside the temple was King Pakal’s funeral chamber. The Mayan ruler of Palenque was ...

The Dallas neo-grunge rock group Aztec Milk Temple includes Scott Tucker (second from left) who also works with the non-profit Deep Ellum 100 and writes for the Dallas Observer.(Supplied / Idol ...