This video retraces the fall of the Aztec Empire using Google Earth to bring the 16th-century conquest to life. We follow ...

Scientists have shown that an obsidian hand-mirror once owned by the Renaissance polymath John Dee has Aztec origins, thus confirming a longstanding mystery. John Dee was quite the character. Born in ...

Two empires met in 1519 when Hernan Cortes' conquistadors entered Tenochtitlan and encountered the court of the Emperor Moctezuma. The Aztecs didn't know what to make of the horses brought in by the ...