In All About History issue 121, on sale now, you can explore the rise of the Aztec Empire, from its simple origins to the massive Central American superpower that it became. Learn about how its ...

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This video retraces the fall of the Aztec Empire using Google Earth to bring the 16th-century conquest to life. We follow ...

Aztec writing sometimes used different colours to refine a word's meaning: This page is from an early 16th century book about Aztec imperial taxation, the Matricula de Tributos, now in the National ...

The Aztec Empire was formed after the three ruling cities around the Valley of Mexico – Tenochtitlan, Texcoco and Tlacopa – joined forces in 1428. Tenochtitlan would quickly become the dominant ...

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Last month marked 500 years since the fall of the Aztec Empire. Centred in Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, the Aztecs built an enormous city in the middle of a lake after seeing an eagle with a snake ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. ‘The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire’ is a show of modest size but ...

Cortes' journey to the Americas in search of gold ends in defeat for the Aztecs.