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Aztec culture was the dominant force in Mesoamerica for thousands of years, but it’s also been under threat by outsiders.
Now, archaeologists have found the remains of the Aztec king’s wife and daughter buried in a massive mausoleum in Mexico City.
The site, called the Aztecs and the Incas Museum of Culture, was built in the 15th century by a Spanish priest who had been the spiritual guide of the Inca empire.
The mausolum is the largest in the Americas and was once the home of the king and the ruler of the city of Huitzilopochtli, which is now Mexico City, according to The Associated Press.
Archaeologists have found a wife and a daughter who were buried in the mauso of the once-mighty Aztec empire.
The queen, a young woman named Mihi, was buried in an underground chamber.
Archaeologists found that her skeleton had been pulled apart by her own hand and her face and torso had been dismembered, with the head still inside the body.
She had her left arm around the neck of her dead husband, and she was wearing a crown.
It’s unclear what role the husband played in the Incan empire.
Aztec rulers are known to have been very superstitious, but the remains show that his role was not a central one.
“The mummy was a pretty unique case,” said Juan Carlos Montes, an archaeologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
“It’s very rare to find an Inca mummy that has a woman, and there’s no other examples of a woman mummy in Mesolithic,” Montes said.
Aztec culture is one of the world’s oldest, having spread from central Mexico to Peru and to the Philippines by the 10th century.
Aztecans were originally from the northernmost part of the Americas, which has a population of about 2 million people.
The Aztecan culture spread eastward, as far as present-day Peru and Mexico, as well as through Central and South America, the Americas’ largest continent.
Archaeological finds show that the Incans began trading with the Spanish and that by the end of the 14th century, Spain had a colony in Peru.
The Spanish later invaded Peru and later conquered Mexico.
For hundreds of years the Incanos ruled Mexico, but by the early 16th century they were being pushed out by the Spanish, who had taken over their empire in the 1600s.
As a result, Azteca people in the northern part of Mexico became known as the “Aztec People,” which came from the Spanish word “Aztaco.”
They were called “Aztecs” because they were indigenous to the region.
According to the AP, the mummies were unearthed on the site of a 15th-century mausos, or underground city, in the city’s central plaza, which was a huge public space in the early 18th century and was a central point of Mesoampas cultural power.
Mesoampases power was to the extent that it allowed the Incases to control commerce and politics.
In the early 15th and 16th centuries, the Incah empire had a strong foothold in Mexico and was powerful enough to take over the Incahu empire.
But the Spanish continued to control Mesoampas borders.
Eventually, in 1616, a Mexican court, under the leadership of Gen. Antonio de la Vega, captured and destroyed the Aztlán empire.
By the mid-17th century the Spanish had moved south and began settling in the states of Guerrero, Chihuahua, Oaxaca and Sonora, which had been part of Inca territory for centuries.
By the end the 17th century Mexico had become a Spanish colony and the Spanish Empire had been established in the United States.
