Two pioneering researchers who gave voice to people and cultures previously excluded from history were elected to the ...

Mexico great empire at the time of the Spanish conquest often referred to as Aztec. It was actually Mexica, although the two ...

Consider the roles tobacco, sugar, peppers, and molasses have on the global stage. The shifting of goods is called by ...

This video uses Google Earth to trace the fall of the Aztec Empire in the early 16th century. By following the landscapes of ...

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Archaeologists in Mexico have excavated a 16th-century Aztec altar surrounded by sacred artifacts. While abstract trinkets and incense burners reflected the structure of the cosmos, a giant clay jar ...

After the Aztec conquest, Cortés marched south and passed through a Maya lake-city where a stranded Spanish horse was later remembered as a god—an eerie prelude to the final subjugation of the last ...

A half-hour walk north of the Templo Mayor, Tlatelolco was a rival Aztec city until it was absorbed into Tenochtitlan in 1473. Recent excavations have shown that Tlatelolco’s ceremonial complex was ...

In the history of the Mesoamerican civilizations, the Aztecs occupy a major position. A lot of their history is known to us, mostly because of their contact with the Spanish conquistadors. But we ...

> To honor the spring god Xipe, Aztec priests flayed human beings and clad themselves in the tattered hides. This symbolized the new vegetation in which the earth clothes itself. > To honor the fire ...

The promoters of the anti-Spanish Black Legend have manipulated history to present genocidal savages, the Aztecs, as poor victims. Tower of skulls in Tenochtitlán, with the remains of men, women and ...

Cortés has given way to Netanyahu, Putin, and Trump. A new age of conquest is upon us. Boys watch smoke billowing during Israeli strikes east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 13, 2024. This ...