In 1519 Hernan Cortés sailed from Cuba, landed in Mexico and made his way to the Aztec capital. Miguel Leon­Portilla, a Mexican anthropologist, gathered accounts by the Aztecs, some of which were ...

After years of serving the ruling chief of Tabasco, she fell into the hands of Hernán Cortés in 1519. It's believed she was only 15 or 16 years old. Malinche started as a domestic slave to ...

Moctezuma and Cortés met at the crossroads of what are today the streets of República del Salvador and Pino Suárez, a few blocks from the capital's Zócalo in Mexico City, on November 8 ...

Before Hernán Cortes' arrival in Tenochtitlan, the city was the capital of the Mexica empire, which was ruled by the tlatoani Moctezuma Xocoyotzin, or Moctezuma II. The city was splendid and had ...