The Aztecs were highly advanced and civilized, except for that child-sacrificing thing. How will we be judged centuries from ...

Centuries-old codices from what is now Mexico hold a wealth of knowledge about the Aztecs in their native language, including ...

In another special episode looking back at history, Venetia Rainey talks with the author of ‘Fifth Sun: A New History of the ...

Mosaic; from Mexico. Listening to the sounds of buskers in the heart of Mexico City today, ...

When Motecuhzoma had finished, La Malinche translated his address into Spanish so that the Captain could understand ... The Brohen Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (Boston: Beacon ...

The Aztecs wrote extensively in the language, producing a large concentration of literature that survived during and after ...

By Gwynne Dyer – Friday, 13 August, is the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, fell to the invaders after a long siege ...

In the course of the Spanish Conquest, Aztec culture was almost completely obliterated. So how much do we, can we, actually know about the Aztecs that these buskers are honouring? Virtually all ...

The altar dates back to the time after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán. Experts say it was located in a courtyard inside a home of an Aztec family, who would have used it ...

It is one of the best-preserved examples of pre-conquest Aztec-style writing that exists ... as well as reigning Spanish King Philip VI, apologize for atrocities that were committed following ...

The cathedral was built between 1573 and 1813 after the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan and ... pyramids and structures belonging to the Aztecs. Highlights of the massive cathedral include ...