Hernán Cortés Hernández, namesake of the infamous Spanish conquistador, is the new commander of the National Guard in Mexico.

Archaeologists say they may have belonged to the fleet led by Spain's Hernán Cortés, who conquered the Aztec empire in the 16th Century. Last year another anchor was discovered nearby ...

A skeleton visible within a burial at the entrance of the palace of Hernán Cortés —the Spanish conquistador who caused the ...

The placement of every excavated object appeared to be governed by an exquisite logic, re-creating the Aztec Empire's entire cosmology. It was at the very bottom of the second offering box that ...

The largest surviving gold nugget found in the western hemisphere is a breathtaking nugget named The Boot of Cortez.

The Aztec Empire was conquered by Cortes, who gained a fortune for his efforts. How much gold did Hernan Cortes find? Leonardo pointed out to us that Cortés sent 20 percent of what the Spaniards had ...

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.

Virtually all the accounts of the Aztec Empire were written by the Spaniards who overthrew it, and so they have to be read with considerable scepticism. It's all the more important, then ...

The Aztec, who referred to themselves as the Mexica ... defenceless child — that the Mexica believed that Hernan Cortes and his gang of diseased thugs were the incarnation of Mexica gods ...

The first encounter between Aztec emperor Montezuma and conquistador Hernando Cortés took place on Nov. 8, 1519—the latter ...

Latin America’s ambivalence toward holidays to commemorate the colonizers has taken a turn since 1992. The 500-year ...

Set at the tail end of the age of the Aztec Empire, the animated film follows a young Aztec boy named Yohualli Coatl, who sets out to exact revenge against Spanish Conquistadors for killing his ...