Relive Battle between Aztec King and the Spanish Conquistadors Detail of Martin de la Cruz Badiano codex (1552) on display at the Mexican National Museum of Anthropology's "Codices of Mexico ...

Archaeologists have found a mass grave in Mexico City with at least 49 human skeletons dating from Spain's conquest of the Aztecs in the 16th Century. Experts say the site is unusual as the Aztec ...

When the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés arrived on the Gulf Coast of Mexico in 1519, envoys from the Aztec king Motecuhzoma - better known as Montezuma - bestowed gifts of gold. Big mistake.

CHICAGO (AP) _ An ambitious new exhibition at the Field Museum reassembles some fragments of a world that was shattered forever on Aug. 31, 1521. That was when the small Spanish army of conquistado… ...

The Aztec outnumbered the Spanish, but that didn't stop Hernán Cortés from seizing Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, in 1521. This 18th-century oil painting, part of the Conquest of Mexico series ...

Dismembered bodies of 'fattened-up' Spanish conquistadors, women and toddlers were eaten by their cannibalistic Aztec captors, research reveals. The bodies of more than 450 people were found at ...

In 1521, Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés completed the invasion of Mexico’s most powerful empire. His glorified tale starts out with just a few hundred Spaniards landing near Veracruz on the Gulf ...

The art historians also discuss life-size statues of an Aztec god of the underworld Mictlantecuhtli and an Eagle Warrior, c. 1400-1521 C.E., discovered in the House of the Eagles and housed today ...

RAYMOND -- An Aztec warrior, a Mayan temple, a conquistador, a flamenco dancer and the Visigoth Cathedral will permanently grace Kimberly Moyer's Spanish classroom. Raymond High School senior Linds… ...