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 ...

A day earlier, Aztec Emperor Moctezuma was killed, or possibly assassinated, according to the native informants of one Spanish chronicler, which promoted a frenzied battle that forced Cortes, his ...

With the 700th anniversary of Mexico's conquest arriving in 2025, President Sheinbaum wants Spain to acknowledge the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some will shock you, while others will delight you. The Aztec Empire was full of interesting daily tidbits that we never learned about in school.

Tetzcoco was one of the most important cities of the pre-Hispanic Aztec Empire. When the Spaniards arrived in 1519 ... This book examines how the city's nobility navigated this tumultuous period of ...

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 ...