"Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Aztec empire, curated by Felipe Solís, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 15, 2004-February 13, 2005"--T.p. verso. "This exhibition is ...

The Aztec Empire. One of the most powerful and feared empires to ever stake its claim on the Americas, it laid claim to much ...

This episode focuses on the Aztec Eagle Warriors, the elite shock troops of the formidable Aztec Empire. Discover their ...

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 ...

Spanish conquerors did not themselves bring inequality to the Aztec lands they invaded, they merely built on the socio-economic structure that was already in place, adapting it as it suited their ...

The woman long blamed for her role in the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is getting a modern makeover. The Spanish called her Marina, pre-Hispanic peoples knew her as Malintzin and later she was ...

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 ...

When Aztec emissaries arrived in 1520 to Tzintzuntzan, the capital of the Tarascan Kingdom in what is now the Mexican state of Michoacán, they carried a warning from the Aztec emperor, Cuauhtémoc.

Archaeologists have discovered in Mexico the remains of a boat more than 400 years old that may have sailed on a now-vanished lake following the fall of the Aztec Empire. Researchers uncovered seven ...