Tenochtitlan only became important to the Spanish ... the Arab emperor Abd al-Malik launched a construction project atop the Temple Mount, where the ruins of the Jewish Temple remained.

The cylindrical structure in question sits near the cathedral built over Templo Mayor, one of the main temples of the former ... for the Aztec residents of Tenochtitlan. It represented not only ...

Although it has been argued that other ancient wonders of comparable regard—such as the Great Wall of China, Machu Picchu in Peru, and the Aztec Temple in Tenochtitlan in Mexico—should have ...

Before Hernán Cortes' arrival in Tenochtitlan, the city was the capital of the Mexica empire, which was ruled by the tlatoani Moctezuma Xocoyotzin, or Moctezuma II. The city was splendid and had ...