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.

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, ...

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, ...

Explore the history of the Aztecs, their incredible achievements in art, architecture, and warfare, as well as the factors that led to their decline. --- For more videos from Smithsonian Magazine ...

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 ...

according to Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The Mexican government recently bought three illustrated codices, known as the Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco, from a ...

The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan ... has now been translated into English and offers an alternate history in which the Incas and Aztecs conquered Europe. It’s fiction, of course ...