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 ...

On the edge of Mexico City's famed Zócalo plaza, next to the ruins of the Aztec sacred pyramid known ... ruled over Mexico on the eve of the Spanish conquest. "About Moctezuma II, we have many ...

In the course of the Spanish Conquest, Aztec culture was almost ... Virtually all the accounts of the Aztec Empire were written by the Spaniards who overthrew it, and so they have to be read ...

there was no such thing as an “Aztec Empire” — a term that was coined centuries after the arrival of the Spanish. Instead, Cortés wandered into a collection of city states, three of them ...

The conquest of Mexico began in 1519 when a small army led by Hernán Cortés landed in the modern-day state of Veracruz. Within two years, the Spanish had overcome the powerful Aztec Empire.

It is one of the best-preserved examples of pre-conquest Aztec-style writing that exists ... as well as reigning Spanish King Philip VI, apologize for atrocities that were committed following ...

A turquoise-encrusted mask of Xiuhtecuhtli, Aztec fire god, symbolises renewal and is showcased at the British Museum.

In the course of the Spanish Conquest, Aztec culture was almost ... Virtually all the accounts of the Aztec Empire were written by the Spaniards who overthrew it, and so they have to be read ...

The altar dates back to the time after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec capital ... is seen as the beginning of the end of the Aztec empire, which in its heyday ruled over the central Mexican ...

Between 1345 and 1521 C.E., the Aztec Empire flourished in what is ... Their power came to an end with the Spanish conquest.