Clash of Empires, the Dark Knight trades his gothic cape for a feathered headdress and the guttural poetry of Náhuatl.

Before their defeat by the Spanish in 1521, the triple alliance ruled Mesoamerica through complex trade networks—and warfare.

Dance groups, people dressed in traditional Mayan and Aztec headdresses, marching bands, inflatables and more will follow.

Dance groups, people dressed in traditional Mayan and Aztec headdresses, marching bands, inflatables and more will follow. New to the parade this year are mojiganga giant puppets.

Yet, legend has it they might have traded their feathered headdresses for a stint in Southeast Asia. Is it true that the mighty Aztecs fought in an invasion of Brunei?

In last year’s parade, about 200 members walked or did Mexican folk dances in feathered Aztec headdresses and other traditional Mexican costumes, according to parade organizers.

Since the 1990s, for example, Mexico has been asking Austria for Moctezuma's penacho, the headdress of the last Aztec emperor, preserved in Vienna's Museum of Ethnology and made of 374 quetzal ...

Mexico's president said on Monday that he had given his wife the “almost impossible mission” of persuading Austria to return a feather headdress said to have been worn by Aztec emperor ...

Montezuma was one of the most influential figures in Aztec history, yet there’s a lot we don’t know about him. We know that he reigned from 1502 until 1520 and that he famously expanded the Aztec ...

Adniel Avendano of Oaxaca, Mexico, prepares a traditional Aztec headdress for a performance at Indigenous Peoples Day in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Ben Miller, an event coordinator who traveled to ...