Three California parents are suing to prevent the state's public school system from reciting prayers to Aztec deities that have been worshipped with human sacrifice – arguing that doing so violates ...

A group of parents in California sued the State Board of Education Friday over a proposed new “Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum” (ESMC) that would have public school students chanting affirmations to ...

In the pantheon of Mexico's pre-Hispanic gods, most Aztec deities are depicted as brutal beings only appeased by human sacrifices You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if ...

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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 ...

When Cortés and his conquistadors overran the Aztec empire in 1520, they found “a society unlike any they had encountered hitherto,” said Emily Sharpe in The Art Newspaper. The natives of the region ...

Three California parents have filed a lawsuit against the state's Department of Education over a chant to Aztec deities included in a new ethnic studies curriculum. According to the suit, which was ...

The Mexican government will build a supercomputer with a processing capacity seven times greater than the current most ...

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 ...

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