Among other things, it traces Latin America’s largely unrecognized role in the abolition of the doctrine of conquest and the ...

Tenochtitlan, a metropolis built in the middle of a lake, with floating islands supported by piles. The date: November 1519.

It’s not a word you hear frequently, but it made headlines on Saturday (May 17), when a Mexican ship known as the Cuauhtémoc ...

The Mexican navy tall ship that struck the Brooklyn Bridge late Saturday has set sail annually for the last four decades as ...

The Aztec Empire may have ended centuries ago, but its presence is far from gone. It lingers in temple ruins, place names, ...

The conquest of Tenochtitlan and the subsequent consolidation of Spanish domination over the former Aztec Empire was the first major possession in what became the Spanish Empire. This vast ...

The Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés has arrived ... He is expecting to meet the Aztec emperor Moctezuma, who is fearsome yet depressed. The aging Moctezuma tends to be either napping or ...

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 ...

Thus, in addition to the conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires ... in his work Annales (a history of the reign of Elizabeth I), expressed that the Spanish empire “covered such an extent, above all ...

Digital artist Thomas Kole, originally from Amersfoort, Netherlands, has re-created the capital of the Aztec, or Mexica ... were repurposed after the Spanish conquest. The lake has been drained ...