“Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma and the Last Stand of the Aztecs” (Bantam Books. 330 pages. $27.50), by Buddy Levy Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes met the mighty Montezuma during a ...

Underwater archaeologists have discovered two 500-year-old iron ship anchors that may have belonged to the fleet of Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes. Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient Aztec palace that later became the site of the home of famed Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes in Mexico City. The discovery was made ...

MEXICO CITY — Archaeologists digging in a ruined pyramid in downtown Mexico City said Tuesday they found a mass grave that may hold the skeletal remains of the Aztec holdouts who fought conquistador ...

This month marks 500 years since the fall of Tenochtitlán, the grand city of the Mexicas, what the Aztecs called themselves. Historians and other scholars have yet to agree fully on the devastating ...

MEXICO CITY — Archaeologists digging in a ruined pyramid in downtown Mexico City said Tuesday that they found a mass grave that may hold the skeletal remains of the Aztec holdouts who fought ...

Hispanic Heritage Month is an appropriate time to learn more about the Aztecs and Mayas and the slave girl Malinalli who lived among them. She changed the fate of Mexico and Spain when she became the ...

Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes met the mighty Montezuma during a brief but elaborate ceremony in the Aztec ruler's home city of Tenochtitlan on Nov. 8, 1519. It was a fateful meeting of ...

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A bust of the Aztec emperor Cuauhtemoc in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, with images of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl on the surrounding buildings, in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of ...