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 ...

In a sense, 1521 is Mexico's 1619. A foundational moment that has for a long time been shaped by just one perspective, a European one. The story of how Hernán Cortés and his small army of ...

In 1519, Hernán Cortés and fewer than 400 Spanish conquistadors set their sights on the Aztec Empire—one of the most powerful ...

By reorienting Mexico City-Tenochtitlan as a colonial capital and indigenous city, Mundy demonstrates its continuity across time. Using maps, manuscripts, and artworks, she draws out two themes: the ...

Tenochtitlán was an Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521. Built on an island on Lake Texcoco, it had a system of canals and causeways that supplied the hundreds of thousands of ...

The celebrations mark the founding of Tenochtitlan in 1325 by the Mexica people, later known as the Aztecs, who settled in the Valley of Mexico following a divine sign: an eagle on a cactus.

In total, in Tenochtitlan, there were 11 Tlatoanis, from its foundation in 1325, until its fall in 1521. Tizoc was one of the Tlatoanis of Tenochtitlan.

TENOCHTITLAN continues to baffle scientists, and more than 500 years on from the fall of the Aztec capital, the wounds of Mexico's most controversial moment remain ever visible.

As we hit the 500th year anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlan, more researchers are starting to question the old narratives of the conquest. Malintzin, for example, has gone from Doña Marina, a ...

The project, Chicagotlan: Finding Tenochtitlan in Chicago, includes an explanation of the history of Pilsen’s Plaza Tenochtitlan, the 18th Street Pink Line Stop, and some murals across the city.