The Aztecs ruled over a large area of Mexico during the 15th and 16th centuries. Their capital was at Tenochtitlán, in what ...

The bar was originally discovered in 1981 during a construction project in Mexico City, which was built on the ruins of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan A new scientific analysis of a large gold bar ...

Mexican dancers burn incense during a ceremony commemorating the 503rd anniversary of the fall of the Aztec empire’s capital ... they lost the war with the Spanish, and how history has ...

potentially offering an insight into the Spanish invasion. Archaeologists say they may have belonged to the fleet led by Spain's Hernán Cortés, who conquered the Aztec empire in the 16th Century.

Modern-day Mexico City now stands where the Aztec capital once did, with the historic city center over what was formerly the temple. Originally built around 1325, the Templo Mayor was a focal ...