“Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma and the Last Stand of the Aztecs” (Bantam Books. 330 pages. $27.50), by Buddy Levy Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes met the mighty Montezuma during a ...

Underwater archaeologists have discovered two 500-year-old iron ship anchors that may have belonged to the fleet of Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes. Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and ...

"Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma and the Last Stand of the Aztecs" (Bantam Books. 330 pages. $27.50), by Buddy Levy. Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes met the mighty Montezuma during a ...

Hispanic Heritage Month is an appropriate time to learn more about the Aztecs and Mayas and the slave girl Malinalli who lived among them. She changed the fate of Mexico and Spain when she became the ...

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 devastating ...

Underwater archaeologists are searching the waters off Playa Villa Rica, about 75 kilometers (46.6 miles) north of Veracruz on Mexico’s Gulf coast, for what’s left of conquistador Hernán Cortés’ ...

Much like the coronavirus pandemic, which has forced the world to adapt, similar crises have rocked civilisations in years gone by. More than 500 years ago, Cortés and his men arrived in the Aztec ...