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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before Hernán Cortes' arrival in Tenochtitlan, the city was the capital of the Mexica empire, which was ruled by the tlatoani Moctezuma Xocoyotzin, or Moctezuma II. The city was splendid and had ...

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 ...