The bar was originally discovered in 1981 during a construction project in Mexico City, which was built on the ruins of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan A new scientific analysis of a large gold bar ...

The palace was also used as the home of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés after the fall of the Aztec empire. Excavators have found evidence of the home Cortés had at the palace site.

When Spaniards arrived on Aztec land in the 16th century, they wondrously documented the preparation of hundreds of various ...