Upon their arrival, in 1919, the Spaniards had some weapons that gave them an advantage over the indigenous people of the country ...

Throughout Mexico's history there have been several episodes, some glorious, and others that have shown us moments of weakness. One of the latter, undoubtedly, was that of the Conquest of Mexico ...

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 ...

It is one of the best-preserved examples of pre-conquest Aztec-style writing that exists, after Catholic authorities in colonial-era Mexico dismissed such codices as the work of the devil and ...

The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, said on Tuesday that the Gulf of Mexico will continue to be called that and asked ...

Polk wanted to lay claim to California, New Mexico, and land near the disputed southern border of Texas. Mexico, however, was not so eager to let go of these territories. Polk started out by ...

A McGill University researcher has discovered that Guiengola, a 15th century Zapotec site in southern Oaxaca, Mexico, which ...