When the first Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan in 1519, they claimed to have witnessed a ...

This story appears in the November 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the edge of Mexico City's famed Zócalo plaza, next to the ruins of the Aztec sacred pyramid known as the Templo ...

the same year as the nearby twin city of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire. The Spanish razed Tenochtitlan in 1521 to found Mexico City, conquering the Aztecs. The pyramid newly ...

Built in the 16th century by the Spanish on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the old Aztec capital, Mexico City is now one of the world's largest and most densely populated cities. It has five Aztec temples ...

Before Hernán Cortes' arrival in Tenochtitlan, the city was the capital of the Mexica empire, which was ruled by the tlatoani Moctezuma Xocoyotzin, or Moctezuma II. The city was splendid and had ...

The bar was originally discovered in 1981 during a construction project some 5m underground in downtown Mexico City - which was built on the ruins of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan - where a canal ...

The Mexican Archaeology magazine of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) emphasizes that the peoples of Mexico-Tenochtitlan ... important medium in Aztec society, even ...