Engraving of Hernan Cortes fighting Montezuma by Jan Karel Donatus Van Beecq ... He returned to the mountains in the 1880s ...

The Museo Mural Diego Rivera presents the exhibition exploring the historical and cultural debate surrounding the figures of ...

These 17 famous explorers made impactful expeditions that left an indelible mark on the global map. Route: Silk Road between Europe ... that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire in Mexico Hernan Cortes ...

Among them was the conquistador Hernando Cortes, who led massacres in Mexico but who also, some scholars believe, had the famous Dresden Codex—one of just four Maya illustrated books surviving ...

When the Chontal Maya of Potonchan – a Maya capital now part of Mexico – heard the conquistador Hernando Cortés read the document three consecutive times, they answered with arrows.

In both cases López Luján knew where to look by tracing a complicated series of east-west axes, or "imaginary lines," on a map of the site. "There's always this repetitive symmetry," says López ...

Cook’s voyages helped guide generations of explorers and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. In 1513, Spanish ...

In this 2024 cover interview, actor Javier Bardem talks Netflix's Monsters, fatherhood, Formula 1 and addressing his flaws.

Naturally, a smart phone map can make navigation easier ... In 1521, it was razed by Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors to make room for a European-style colonial capital, with an enormous ...

Although I enjoyed this book, I do have a few complaints. First, the book needed a map of the area encompassed by the Aztec Empire and it would have benefitted from a historical timeline of the ...

Playwright Oliver Mayer’s “The Man in the Maze” imagines a parallel historical narrative to the murderous conquest of Mexico by Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes and his soldiers.

The Requerimiento, a 16th-century document, sheds light on the deeper ideas and laws that the Spanish used to take over the New World.