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

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

It’s a new look at how the Aztecs dealt with internal conflict, how they lost the war with the Spanish, and how history has misremembered them. ‘Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs’, by ...

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 the Spanish conquest and colonization. It was soon thereafter preserved ...

Aztecs: (Nahuatl) A pre-Hispanic empire that controlled much of central Mexico, with a capital in Tenochtitlan, up until the Spanish conquest. The Aztecs called themselves the Culhua-Mexica. "Huey ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yet the axolotl has become an improbable global megastar. Shops are crowded with cuddly axolotls. Toy axolotls fall out of McDonald’s Happy Meals. Axolotl-themed clothes, jewellery and Christmas ...

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 ...