Some will shock you, while others will delight you. The Aztec Empire was full of interesting daily tidbits that we never learned about in school.

Susan Kellogg's history of the Aztecs offers a concise yet comprehensive assessment of Aztec history and civilization, emphasizing how material life and the economy functioned in relation to politics, ...

Spanish forces and their Indigenous allies captured Tenochtitlán in 1521, bringing the Aztec Empire’s reign to a close after less than a century. The White House, whose cornerstone was laid in 1792, ...

Speaking of politics, the political history of the Aztec Empire is riveting and thoroughly, surprisingly, modern: The power struggles, the built economies and trade goods, the family and social ...

That is especially true of the Aztec Empire, virtually all of which resides ... Tlacaelel introduced a new version of Mexica history, asserting that his people were offspring of the great Toltec ...

Aztec society, whose powerful empire stretched over what is now southern ... entitled the General History of the Things of New Spain. The lavishly illustrated manuscript, whose three volumes ...

“The golden bar is a unique historical testimony to a transcendent moment in world history,” said archaeologist Leonardo Lopez Lujan, who leads excavations at a nearby dig where the Aztecs ...

Virtually all the accounts of the Aztec Empire were written by the Spaniards ... learning their language and transmitting their culture and their history. So although he's Spanish, we can probably ...

When Spaniards arrived on Aztec land in the 16th century ... it's not hard to understand why their rich history never faded ...