The Aztec Empire once hosted an expansive trade network that brought volcanic glass to its capital from right across Mesoamerica, from coast to coast. The largest compositional study of obsidian ...

The Aztec Empire flourished in the Valley of Mexico between A.D. 1325 and 1519 and was the last great civilization before the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century.

In a sense, 1521 is Mexico's 1619. A foundational moment that for centuries has been shaped by just one perspective: a European one. The story of how Hernán Cortés and a few hundred Spaniards ...

Aztec Empire uses “documentation to battle the myths surrounding this epic.” The Aztec Council as depicted in 16th century manuscripts and the Aztec Empire graphic Novel. Drawn by Guinan and Hahn ...

On the ruins of the Aztec empire, Mexico City began to rise. In fact, Cortés and the Spaniards who followed him used the pre-Hispanic structures as the foundation for new churches and cathedrals ...

The Getty Villa's new exhibit explores the parallels the Spanish conquistadors drew between the Aztecs and the Romans in an effort to understand the New World society they overran in 1520.