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 ...

The Spanish conquered Mexico in 1521 after Hernan Cortes led a small army of soldiers and defeated the Tenochca to take their city of Tenochtitlan and annex the "Aztec Empire" to establish the ...