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 ...

The Aztec outnumbered the Spanish, but that didn't stop Hernán Cortés from seizing Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, in 1521. This 18th-century oil painting, part of the Conquest of Mexico series ...

Throughline takes us back 500 years to understand the rise, fall and resilience of the great Aztec city Tenochititlán. The story of European dominance has been largely accepted as historical truth.

Object Details Author Schwartz, Stuart B Notes NMAI copy 39088017696816 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Contents Introduction: Civilizations in Conflict -- A Long Tradition: The ...

Álvaro Enrigue's new novel, "You Dreamed of Empires," recounts the fateful meeting of Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma that doomed the Aztec civilizations.

Nahuatl pronunciation guide -- 1. The Spanish background to the conquest of Mexico -- 2. Mesoamerica and the Aztecs -- 3. The discovery of Yucatan -- 4. The conquest of central Mexico -- 5. The march ...

In an essay about Bernal Díaz del Castillo, the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes recalls walking across Mexico City’s enormous Zócalo—the site of Tenochtitlan’s temple complex—as a law student.

A stolen 16th-century manuscript signed by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés has been found and returned to the Mexican ...

A priceless manuscript page, bearing the signature of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés from nearly five centuries ago, has ...

The U.S. FBI said it had on Wednesday returned to Mexico a stolen manuscript dating back five centuries to the Spanish ...