The Aztec Empire once hosted an expansive trade network that brought volcanic glass to its capital from right across Mesoamerica, coast to coast. The largest compositional study of obsidian artifacts ...
The Aztecs, who flourished from 1428 to 1521, were ruled by an alliance of three groups: Mexica, Acolhua, and Tepaneca, and Tenochtitlan was the city built by Mexica on Lake Texcoco. Tenochtitlan at ...
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 ...
Every Thursday evening at a park in the Pilsen neighborhood, a group of Aztec dancers, some originally from Mexico City, gather to practice the ancestral ritual amid the laughs of children on the ...
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 people ...
A note on spelling and translations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Water and the sacred city -- Chapter 3: The Tlatoani in Tenochtitlan -- Chapter 4: The city in the conquest's wake -- ...
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LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is marking the 500th anniversary of the fall of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan with an exhibition that aims to subvert the traditional ...