Western scholars in the modern age latched on to the word "Aztec" as a descriptor for the most dominant empire in Central Mexico during the Spanish conquest, so it wasn't even a word the ...

In the course of the Spanish Conquest, Aztec culture was almost completely obliterated. So how much do we, can we, actually know about the Aztecs that these buskers are honouring? Virtually all ...

is one of several turquoise objects that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés likely took from the Aztec Empire as treasure in the early 16th century. The mask was carved out of Spanish cedar ...