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 ...
Mexico great empire at the time of the Spanish conquest often referred to as Aztec. It was actually Mexica, although the two ...
A note on spelling and translations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Water and the sacred city -- Chapter 3: The Tlatoani in Tenochtitlan -- Chapter 4: The city in the conquest's wake -- ...
Let's turn to a story from more than 500 years ago to the Spanish conquest of Mexico. For years, the story of European dominance has been largely accepted as historical truth. But a closer look at ...
The Aztec Empire once hosted an expansive trade network that brought volcanic glass to its capital from right across Mesoamerica, coast to coast. The largest compositional study of obsidian artifacts ...
Every Thursday evening at a park in the Pilsen neighborhood, a group of Aztec dancers, some originally from Mexico City, gather to practice the ancestral ritual amid the laughs of children on the ...
This video uses Google Earth to trace the fall of the Aztec Empire in the early 16th century. By following the landscapes of ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Walking for hours through the gritty streets in the center of Mexico City, you can hear the daily urban soundtrack: Car engines, the call of the man who buys scrap metal and the ...
Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In 1981, a worker in Mexico City found a gold bar just north of Alameda Central—the oldest public park in the ...