Image caption, A drawing of what the Aztec Tenochtitlán square and Templo Mayor in Mexico might have looked like in the 15th century Day of the Dead's origins lie with the Aztecs, an indigenous ...

A national holiday in Mexico, Día de los Muertos mixes Catholic traditions with its Aztec roots in the celebration ... Contrary to popular belief, the Day of the Dead is not the Mexican version ...

Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, is often confused as the Mexican Halloween because of its use of skeletons and when the holiday is celebrated: Nov. 1 to Nov. 2 It's actually an Aztec ...

“The tradition of the Day of the Dead is rooted in Indigenous ... What is Día de los Muertos? The Day of the Dead started with the Aztec and other Mesoamerican indigenous groups in what is ...

The official date of the Day of the Dead — a Mexican tradition rooted in Indigenous ... through Mictlán (land of the dead according to Aztec beliefs). In fact, the first level of the ...