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 ...

But which human soul? Since the Spaniard Hernán Cortés's conquest of Mexico in 1521, no Aztec emperor's remains have been discovered. Yet historical records say that three Aztec rulers were ...

Archaeologists say they may have belonged to the fleet led by Spain's Hernán Cortés, who conquered the Aztec empire in the 16th Century. Last year another anchor was discovered nearby ...

The lost gold treasures of Montezuma. Engraving of Hernan Cortes fighting Montezuma by Jan Karel Donatus Van Beecq (1638-1722 ...

until the culmination of the conquest in 1521. The first of these was, as already mentioned, Moctezuma, who received Cortes on November 8, 1519. The meeting took place in what is now the corner of ...

Nobody knows exactly what happened in the days and months after Spanish soldiers crossed the flower-trimmed causeway into Tenochtitlan to meet the Aztec emperor in 1519. If you believe Hernán ...

La Malinche served as Hernán Cortés's interpreter, and provided him with sensitive information that aided his conquest of Mexico ... was born into a noble Aztec family, and she was sold to ...

There was an online ruckus a few months ago when social media users got a taste of Emily Wilson’s translation of “The Iliad,” with some readers bemoaning that it sounded too modern while ...

In Fifth Sun, she writes an informative historical account that is a complex and captivating revisionist history of the Aztecs ... the Mexica believed that Hernan Cortes and his gang of diseased ...

In the course of the Spanish Conquest, Aztec culture was almost completely obliterated. So how much do we, can we, actually know about the Aztecs that these buskers are honouring? Virtually all ...

One of the latter, undoubtedly, was that of the Conquest of Mexico, by Spaniards led by Hernán Cortes, who arrived ... These were much longer instruments than Aztec spears. Also, the Spaniards ...

The remains of an ancient Aztec palace have been discovered under a stately building in Mexico City. During renovations at the building off the capital's central Zócalo plaza, workers found ...