In 1519 Hernan Cortés sailed from Cuba, landed in Mexico and made his way to the Aztec capital. Miguel Leon­Portilla, a Mexican anthropologist, gathered accounts by the Aztecs, some of which were ...

Also known as Maltintzin, Malinalli, or Doña Marina (as the Spanish called her), she was known as Hernán Cortés's translator during the Spanish conquest ... to a noble Aztec chief and most ...

Five hundred years have passed since the death of Cuauhtémoc, the last ruler of the Aztec Empire. To commemorate this anniversary, a special issue of Arqueología Mexicana was published ...

One of the latter, undoubtedly, was that of the Conquest of Mexico, by Spaniards led by Hernán Cortes, who arrived ... These were much longer instruments than Aztec spears. Also, the Spaniards ...

In the course of the Spanish Conquest, Aztec culture was almost completely obliterated. So how much do we, can we, actually know about the Aztecs that these buskers are honouring? Virtually all ...

The Conquest of Mexico was one of the most tragic ... Cuitláhuac died of smallpox, a disease brought by the Spaniards. After this, Cortes replied to Cuauhtémoc that he greatly appreciated ...

Listening to the sounds of buskers in the heart of Mexico City today, beating Aztec-style drums and wearing feathers and body paint, [I know that] these buskers are not just trying to entertain ...