“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 ...

Hernan Cortes arrived in Mexico, planted a flag and then began his conquest of the Aztecs 500 years ago today According to some traditions the date was March 13, 1519, 500 years ago today. It was the ...

"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 ...

Cortes, the Spanish adventurer, considered the Aztecs to be an evil race because of their tradition of conducting human sacrifices on a massive scale. However, for the Aztecs, their rites were at the ...

MEXICO CITY — Archaeologists digging in a ruined pyramid in downtown Mexico City said Tuesday they found a mass grave that may hold the skeletal remains of the Aztec holdouts who fought conquistador ...

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 ...

Recent outbreaks in the U.S. have drawn attention to the dangers of measles. The Democratic Republic of Congo is fighting a deadly outbreak of Ebola that has killed hundreds. Epidemics are nothing new ...

The 1.93kg slab of gold was discovered in a park in Mexico City in 1981 by a construction worker during excavations for a new building along the Alameda. How it got there remained a mystery, as the ...

Pages from the early Aztec census, thought to have been ordered by Hernándo Cortés, was discovered in the Jagiellonian Library at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków Jagiellonian Library, ...

Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes met the mighty Montezuma during a brief but elaborate ceremony in the Aztec ruler's home city of Tenochtitlan on Nov. 8, 1519. It was a fateful meeting of ...

"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 ...