The Spanish colonization of Mexico began with Hernán Cortés's expedition in 1519 and led to the dramatic fall of the powerful ...

‘Conquistadors and Aztecs’ Review: Cortés in Mexico The Spanish assault on Tenochtitlan was driven by avarice, and aided by local allies who hoped to see the Aztecs fall.

500 years after Cortes’ conquest of the Aztecs, Mexico’s Indigenous roots live on Mexico has never been a place with a homogenized identity. It currently has 68 languages, 63 of which are ...

A new analysis of a skeleton buried under Hernán Cortés' palace in Mexico reveals that it doesn't belong to a monk, as was long thought.

You Dreamed of Empires sets the scene for a violent historical encounter: the war between the Spanish and Aztec empires. But in a fictionalization of Hernán Cortés' arrival in the city of ...

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday asked the country’s indigenous Mexica people to forgive the nation for the abuses they suffered during the 1521 conquest.

Yale professor emeritus John Demos explained the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs by Conquistador Hernán Cortés. He spoke about the advantages that the Spanish had over the Aztecs in spite of ...

The Aztecs were masters of art, astronomy, and rituals who believed the world's survival depended on the balance between fire and sacrifice. But a mask that is believed to represent the power of ...

In a story straight out of "National Treasure," the FBI found the 16th-century document after it was about to go on sale in a Massachusetts-based online auction.

Sometime after Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan in modern-day Mexico City in 1521, an indigenous household that survived the bloody Spanish invasion arranged an altar ...

Amazon will not return to production on the big-budget limited series “Cortes y Moctezuma” due to increased production costs caused by COVID-19, the streamer said Thursday.