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 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 ...

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 ...

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

The Aztec outnumbered the Spanish, but that didn't stop Hernán Cortés from seizing Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, in 1521. This 18th-century oil painting, part of the Conquest of Mexico series ...

The city’s subsidence is a result of water extraction from deeper layers. Each year, the area where Tenochtitlan once stood sinks by between four and five centimeters (1.5-1.9in).

Like a wound that has not yet healed, the vestiges of the great Tenochtitlan, which fell into the hands of the Spanish conquerors 500 years ago, are still present in México City.

Mexico-Tenochtitlan was situated where Mexico City stands today. Historic buildings in the capital were lit up, while replicas of several Aztec gods were placed in the main square and illuminated ...

We spoke with Thomas Kole, a digital artist who re-created the capital of the Aztec Empire in such detail that it looks like a living metropolis.

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.

The oldest part of the temple dates to around 1325, when a group of people called the Mexica migrated into the area surrounding what is now Mexico City. There, according to Mexica lore, their ...

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.