Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Day of the Dead might sound like a solemn affair, but Mexico’s famous holiday is actually a lively commemoration of the departed.

Hernan Cortes landed in Mexico in 1519; two years later, history tells us, the Aztec civilization fell to the Spanish invaders and was wiped out. "Atomik Aztex," the hallucinatory first novel by poet ...

My columna a couple of weeks ago about whether Aztec savagery influences violence in Mexico today drew muchos responses, both bueno and malo. Here are two: It got me thinking, and what I’ve found is ...

(The Conversation) — While Halloween has its origins in Christian tradition, Day of the Dead is a mix of a thriving indigenous culture and the religion of its 16th-century conquerers. (The ...

The lives of the Aztec common people were far richer and more complex than the official histories would have us believe In 1519, when Hernn Corts led his army into Tenochtitlán in the Valley of Mexico ...

STAMFORD — Early on in “The History Makers,” Stamford native Val Bodurtha’s young adult novel set in a modern-day Aztec empire, the book’s protagonist celebrates her 17th birthday as one does in ...