The Mexican government recently bought three illustrated codices, known as the Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco, from a ...
The palace was also used as the home of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés after the fall of the Aztec empire. Excavators ... Aztec capital Tenochtitlán in 1521. When the city surrendered ...
Between 1345 and 1521 C.E., the Aztec Empire flourished in what is now central and southern Mexico. The Aztecs were highly advanced in agriculture and trade, largely thanks to an elite group of ...
Archaeologists have excavated more sections of an extraordinary Aztec ... empire was overthrown by invaders led by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, who captured Tenochtitlan in 1521.
Five centuries after the Aztec empire's fall, a Mexican video game is challenging ... Tenochtitlan – today Mexico City – on August 13, 1521.