In 1519 Hernan Cortés sailed from Cuba, landed in Mexico and made his way to the Aztec capital. Miguel Leon­Portilla, a Mexican anthropologist, gathered accounts by the Aztecs, some of which were ...

Within a few hours’ drive of Mexico City, these centuries-old estates have become restaurants, museums, hotels and even water ...

A further 15 potential sites containing anchors have been identified. "The Conquest of Mexico was a seminal event in human history, and these shipwrecks, if we can find them, will be symbols of ...

There were three rulers who were in charge of Tenochtitlan, from when the Spaniards arrived, until the fall of the Mexican empire Upon their arrival, in 1919, the Spaniards had some weapons that ...

When the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortes arrived in the city of Tenochtitlan, in what is now Mexico City ... until the culmination of the conquest in 1521. The first of these was, as already ...

Travel writer Scott McMurren says there’s plenty to see in places like the Mexican state of Puebla that aren’t far from popular beach resorts.

A Spanish documentary extolling the virtues of the country's conquest of the Americas now showing in Mexico has added fuel ..

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492–1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a ...

Mexico's president has sent a letter to Spain's King Felipe VI and Pope Francis urging them to apologise for human rights abuses committed during the conquest of the region 500 years ago.