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 ...

The Aztecs ruled over a large area of Mexico during the 15th and 16th centuries. Their capital was at Tenochtitlán, in what ...

A day earlier, Aztec Emperor Moctezuma was killed, or possibly assassinated, according to the native informants of one Spanish chronicler, which promoted a frenzied battle that forced Cortes, his ...

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 ...

In the film, Malinche, regarded as a pivotal figure in Spain’s conquest, so a traitor to Mexico, is seen in a new light as a woman battling to maintain peace between the Aztec and Spanish empires.