Nevertheless, it was wiped out in just two years. Here are some facts about the Aztecs and the fall of the empire.

In another special episode looking back at history, Venetia Rainey talks with the author of ‘Fifth Sun: A New History of the ...

Five centuries after the Aztec empire's fall, a Mexican video game is challenging the traditional narrative of subjugation by the Spanish, showing natives as victorious conquerors instead.

The palace was also used as the home of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés after the fall of the Aztec empire. Excavators have found evidence of the home Cortés had at the palace site.

The battle of Tenochtitlán is seen as the beginning of the end of the Aztec empire, which in its heyday ruled over the central Mexican highlands. The archaeologists behind the discovery say that ...