Mexico City is celebrating 700 years since its founding with public events on Saturday, highlighting its Indigenous roots.

The Mexica city’s founding is celebrated with new commemorations, reinforcing a nationalist focus on Indigenous identity ...

Mexico City is marking 700 years since the founding of Tenochtitlan, the ancient Aztec capital buried beneath the modern metropolis. The government staged a massive celebration to honor its Indigenous ...

Mexico City commemorated the 700th anniversary of its founding on Saturday with a series of public events and performances that celebrated its Indigenous heritage and historical roots.

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Mexico City marks the 700th anniversary of its founding with events celebrating Indigenous origins. Performances and dances ...

In a sense, 1521 is Mexico's 1619. A foundational moment that has for a long time been shaped by just one perspective, a European one. The story of how Hernán Cortés and his small army of ...

The city’s subsidence is a result of water extraction from deeper layers. Each year, the area where Tenochtitlan once stood sinks by between four and five centimeters (1.5-1.9in).

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In a sense, 1521 is Mexico's 1619. A foundational moment that for centuries has been shaped by just one perspective: a European one. The story of how Hernán Cortés and a few hundred Spaniards ...

In this way, it is believed that Tenochtitlan could have outnumbered some of the most important cities of that time, such as Constantinople, which is estimated to have had 200,000 inhabitants ...