When it comes to war-for-gold, nobody did it better. Interestingly, the 500th anniversary of Spain’s conquest of the gold-filled Aztec realm is coming soon: on April 21, 1519, Hernán Cortés ...

Miguel Leon­Portilla, a Mexican anthropologist, gathered accounts by the Aztecs, some of which were written shortly after the conquest. Speeches of Motecuhzoma and Cortés When Motecuhzoma [Montezuma] ...

How much gold did the conquistadors take? A total of 181 tons of gold and 16 000 tons of silver were imported from the New World by the Spanish between 1500 and 1650. Where did Cortes find gold? In ...

The Aztec Death Whistle. If hell has a sound, I bet it sounds a lot like the Aztec Death Whistle. The Aztec Death Whistle sounds like a shriek of death mixed with howling wind. It's so unnerving, that ...

Chocolate — a beloved treat we often reach for during moments of indulgence — was once so valuable it was used as currency.

In the course of the Spanish Conquest, Aztec culture was almost completely obliterated. So how much do we, can we, actually know about the Aztecs that these buskers are honouring? Virtually all ...

By Gwynne Dyer – Friday, 13 August, is the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, fell to the invaders after a long siege ...

Before Spanish colonization, Templo Mayor served as the religious center for the Aztec people. When Spanish conquistadors arrived in the early 16th century, the temple was among many structures ...