When the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortes arrived in the city of Tenochtitlan, in what is now Mexico City, the Mexican empire was ruled by the Tlatoani Moctezuma II or Moctezuma Xocoyotzin.He ...

Tenochtitlan was founded in 1325, and served as the capital of the Aztec Empire until 1521, when it was captured by Cortes and his men. Undeterred by the swampy terrain, the Mexica set about ...

There are five versions that talk about the death of the tlatoani mexica. The first is the one that Cortes himself recounted to the king of Spain later, in the same year of 1520. In this version ...

This month marks 500 years since the fall of Tenochtitlán, the grand city of the Mexicas, what the Aztecs called themselves.Historians and other scholars have yet to agree fully on the ...

México — El 14 de marzo de 1519 Hernán Cortés y sus tropas llegaron a la imponente ciudad de Tenochtitlan, capital del imperio mexica, cuya arquitectura y urbanismo les hizo dudar sobre si ...

Corruption and a conquistador: Papers penned by Hernán Cortés in the 1500s disappear from Mexico's national archive, reappear at auctions in New York.

Sometime after Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan in modern-day Mexico City in 1521, an indigenous household that survived the bloody Spanish invasion arranged an altar ...

The receipt bearing the signature of the conquistador was taken some 30 years ago. It turned up at an auction in Massachusetts, and the F.B.I. stepped in.