Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US As every Mexican schoolchild knows, theirs is a nation forged nearly 500 years ago by the conquests of a Spanish adventurer named Hernando ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an Aztec palace and a conquistador’s house in the heart of Mexico City. Numerous basalt slabs from the palace were found beneath Nacional Monte de Piedad, ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found gruesome evidence of Spanish conquistadors slaughtering at least a dozen women and children in an Aztec village after the inhabitants sacrificed and ate Spaniards they had ...

The meeting of Aztec Emperor Montezuma II and Hernán Cortés and the events that followed weigh heavily in Mexico half a millennium later. 500 Years Later, The Spanish Conquest Of Mexico Is Still Being ...

For centuries, the fall of Tenochtitlan, the majestic, lake-bound capital of the Aztecs or Mexica, has engaged historians and storytellers. To the admiring, conquest was neat, romantic and at once ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In 1981, a worker in Mexico City found a gold bar just north of Alameda ...

For centuries, the fate of the original Otomi inhabitants of Xaltocan, the capital of a pre-Aztec Mexican city-state, has remained unknown. Researchers have long wondered whether they assimilated with ...

The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology is presenting a large exhibition of 44 codices for its show, “Codices of Mexico: Memories and Wisdom”, presenting artifacts from a fascinating time in ...