The island city of the Aztecs was the Venice of the so-called New World. Causeways stretched over a salt lake, past canals and floating gardens. A grand market overflowed with exotic vegetables ...

The Spanish colonization of Mexico began with Hernán Cortés's expedition in 1519 and led to the dramatic fall of the powerful ...

In a sense, 1521 is Mexico's 1619. A foundational moment that for centuries has been shaped by just one perspective: a European one. The story of how Hernán Cortés and a few hundred Spaniards ...

Impulse control wasn't Cortes' strong point Searching for the ships Cortés burned before destroying the Aztecs The conquistador scuttled his ships before marching inland to destroy Tenochtitlan.

A new analysis of a skeleton buried under Hernán Cortés' palace in Mexico reveals that it doesn't belong to a monk, as was long thought.

Álvaro Enrigue's new novel reimagines Hernán Cortés' and Moctezuma's empires : NPR's Book of the Day You Dreamed of Empires sets the scene for a violent historical encounter: the war between ...

This is where one of the great military expeditions of history began: Hernán Cortés´s march in 1519-20 from the Gulf of Mexico to Tenochtitlán, seat of the Aztec empire.

The eight-episode series marks the 500 th Anniversary of Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes’ arrival in Mexico. Set in 1519, the ambitious series turns on the conquest of Mexico by Cortés and ...