That is especially true of the Aztec Empire, virtually all of which resides ... Tlacaelel introduced a new version of Mexica history, asserting that his people were offspring of the great Toltec ...

“The golden bar is a unique historical testimony to a transcendent moment in world history,” said archaeologist Leonardo Lopez Lujan, who leads excavations at a nearby dig where the Aztecs ...

Aztec society, whose powerful empire stretched over what is now southern ... entitled the General History of the Things of New Spain. The lavishly illustrated manuscript, whose three volumes ...

Cortes' journey to the Americas in search of gold ends in defeat for the Aztecs.

Virtually all the accounts of the Aztec Empire were written by the Spaniards ... learning their language and transmitting their culture and their history. So although he's Spanish, we can probably ...

The Aztecs, a warlike and religious people who built monumental works and are credited with inventing chocolate, ruled an empire stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean and ...

Between 1345 and 1521 C.E., the Aztec Empire flourished in what is now central and southern Mexico. The Aztecs were highly advanced in agriculture and trade, largely thanks to an elite group of ...