Underwater archaeologists have discovered two 500-year-old iron ship anchors that may have belonged to the fleet of Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes. Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and ...

"Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma and the Last Stand of the Aztecs" (Bantam Books. 330 pages. $27.50), by Buddy Levy. Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes met the mighty Montezuma during a ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Yale professor emeritus John Demos explained the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs by Conquistador Hernán Cortés. He spoke about the advantages that the ...

The meeting of the controversial Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and the formidable Emperor Montezuma in 1519 was one of the great hinge moments of world history, and the beginning of the end for ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient Aztec palace that later became the site of the home of famed Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes in Mexico City. The discovery was made ...

Hispanic Heritage Month is an appropriate time to learn more about the Aztecs and Mayas and the slave girl Malinalli who lived among them. She changed the fate of Mexico and Spain when she became the ...

In a sense, 1521 is Mexico's 1619. A foundational moment that for centuries has been shaped by just one perspective: a European one. The story of how Hernán Cortés and a few hundred Spaniards ...