Known in Nahuatl as Yancuic Xihuitl, the Aztec New Year is traditionally celebrated on March 12. The event, held on the ...

The Aztec calendar is different from the Maya calendar. The latter one has recently gained wide popularity due to the year 2012 prediction of the end of the world. The Aztec and the Maya people, ...

Scientists suggest in a new study that ancient Mesoamericans tracked leap years using a sunlit horizon. By Becky Ferreira Long before Europeans colonized North America, the Indigenous peoples in the ...

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The Aztecs, just like the Mayans, used three distinct calendars, which led to a very complex form of astrology being formed. This art associates a sign of the day, a sign of the month and a sign of ...