DETROIT, MI –– To honor the beginning of Latino Heritage Month, Brush Street in downtown Detroit transformed into a fiesta. Hundreds of people filled the street visiting different vendors at the Plaza ...

The Egyptian sun god Ra was said to sail his boat across the sky by day and carry it back through the underworld by night. This depiction of Ra is from the tomb of Nefertari. The Aztec sun god ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) – In the pantheon of Mexico's pre-Hispanic gods, most Aztec deities are depicted as brutal, blood-thirsty beings only appeased by human sacrifices. But Mexico's Templo Mayor museum on ...

Discover the myth of how the weak and pimply Aztec god Nanahuatl sacrificed himself to become Lord Sun and created a new world.

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The Aztec Identity Initiative studied the Aztec sun stone (calendar) and identified symbols that represent mind, body and soul. Ehecatl (wind) represents Quetzalcoatl, the god of intelligence and self ...

Scottie is a Newsweek science fellow and student at the University of Florida. Her work has appeared in Women's Health, the Gainesville Sun and WUFT, an NPR-PBS affiliate. Mexican excavators recently ...