“I recommended that she insist on the Moctezuma plume, although it is an almost impossible mission, since they have completely appropriated it,” he wrote after posting a photograph of ...

New details on human sacrifices made to the Aztec god of rain Tlaloc ... built under the rule of Moctezuma Ilhuicamina. Between 1452 and 1454, the Basin of Mexico experienced a severe drought ...

Turquoise was also a key element in the regalia of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II, who conducted great rites of human sacrifice wearing a turquoise diadem, turquoise nose-plug, and a loin-cloth with ...