Five hundred years have passed since the death of Cuauhtémoc, the last ruler of the Aztec Empire. To commemorate this anniversary, a special issue of Arqueología Mexicana was published, bringing new ...

At its Jan. 7 organizational meeting, the Aztec City Commission reelected incumbent Mayor Mike Padilla for another term and elected new commissioner Jason Cortez as mayor pro tem. “Aztec has a ...

Setting out for New Spain and the serendipitous gift of language -- The battle with the Tabascans and the acquisition of La Malinche -- Montezuma's message -- The gambler stakes all : "either win the ...

When Aztec emissaries arrived in 1520 to Tzintzuntzan, the capital of the Tarascan Kingdom in what is now the Mexican state of Michoacán, they carried a warning from the Aztec emperor, Cuauhtémoc.

This video uses Google Earth to trace the fall of the Aztec Empire in the early 16th century. By following the landscapes of central Mexico, we explore Tenochtitlan’s grandeur, the arrival of Hernán ...

Introduction: Aztec studies: trends and themes / Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría, Deborah L. Nichols -- Archaeology of the Aztecs. Ancient stone sculptures: in search of the Mexica past / Eduardo Matos ...