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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bust of the Aztec emperor Cuauhtemoc in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, with images of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl on the ...
The meeting of the controversial Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and the formidable Emperor Montezuma in 1519 was one of the great hinge moments of world history, and the beginning of the end for ...
Buried in the Mexico City palace of Hernan Cortes is a mysterious, centuries-old skeleton. Its true identity had been obscured for decades — until now. Following an earthquake that damaged the palace ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This engraving shows Hernán Cortés ...
Archaeologists in Mexico City have found an altar dated to the decades after Spain’s 1521 conquest of the Aztec Empire’s capital, Tenochtitlán. Located in the courtyard of an Aztec home, the altar ...
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 ...
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