Leaving their original homeland sometime in the 1100s, the Aztecs were drawn by a spiritual sign to a marshy swampland on Lake Texcoco. But how did the Aztecs build their extraordinary city of Tenochtitlán on a swamp? This informative and beautifully presented series answers this question and more to build greater understanding of the last of the great Mesoamerican cultures.

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