On the edge of Mexico City's famed Zócalo ... goods and wanting the Aztec attacks to stop in their community," says Carrasco. Absent this appetite for an uprising, the 500 Spaniards who docked ...

MEXICO CITY ... covers most of a city block. Its faded unassuming yellow facade, characteristic of the middle of the last century, obscures the medical center within founded 500 years ago by ...

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an 800-year-old Aztec pyramid in the heart of Mexico City that could show the ancient city is at least a century older than previously thought.

In 1519 Hernan Cortés sailed from Cuba, landed in Mexico ... the city in peace. But on the following day we attacked him with all our might, and that was the beginning of the war Source: From Miguel ...

Much of what is known of Aztec society comes from a book written by Bernardino de Sahagún, a Spanish friar living near what is now Mexico City. During the second part of the 16th century ...

Mexico City is an exciting combination of Aztec, colonial and modern art and ... The surrounding Centro Historico (Historic Center), a 500-block virtual museum of colonial architecture, was ...