Months ago, we booked a vacation to Mexico City with friends. It has been one of those trips that never seemed like it would ...

According to historians, Cortés ordered the Aztec treasury to be melted into ... their loot in a now dried-up canal that fed into Lake Texcoco, according to Live Science. The gold bar was in ...

The Aztecs came into being when three of the most powerful city-states around Lake Texcoco, Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan, united to control what is now central Mexico. The Aztec Empire was ...

Not to mention other difficulties, such as the ground, since Mexico City was built on an islet of Lake Texcoco. So how to make what would ... is pierced by more than three hundred concrete piles, ...

An overlooked jewel hugging its very own lake—Lake Lugano—the city has long been a haven for writers and artists drawn to its palm tree-lined beauty, Alpine foothills, warm summer weather ...

The Aztec deity Xolotl was seen as the twin brother of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent god linked with life and light. In many ways, Xolotl was Quetzalcoatl’s opposite. He was associated with ...

Before the 1960s, the fourth largest lake on Earth glistened for miles across the borders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. By 2015 most of that shiny surface was reduced to a hauntingly barren expanse, ...

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Mexico’s Maya and Aztec pyramids deserve a spot high on your travel list. These were once holy spaces for ancient civilizations, and each offers a moment of complete awe and a rare look into history.