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

It would fall to the eighth Aztec ruler, Ahuitzotl, to stretch the empire to its breaking point. He does not have a face. The man whose remains Leonardo López Luján hopes to find near the Templo ...

Mexican dancers burn incense during a ceremony commemorating the 503rd anniversary of the fall of the Aztec empire’s capital, Tenochtitlan - Eduardo Verdugo/AP In another special episode looking ...

The palace was also used as the home of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés after the fall of the Aztec empire. Excavators have found evidence of the home Cortés had at the palace site.

The battle of Tenochtitlán is seen as the beginning of the end of the Aztec empire, which in its heyday ruled over the central Mexican highlands. The archaeologists behind the discovery say that ...

Between 1345 and 1521 C.E., the Aztec Empire flourished in what is now central ... Their power came to an end with the Spanish conquest.