This video explores the history and significance of Tenochtitlan, focusing on: 00:00 Intro 01:32 The center of Mexico 03:44 ...

Mexico City commemorated the 700th anniversary of its founding on Saturday with a series of public events and performances that celebrated its Indigenous heritage and historical roots. The ...

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 ...

Modern-day Mexico was formed in 1521, when a 500-strong group of Spanish conquistadors, led by Hernan Cortes, alongside thousands upon thousands of indigenous Mexicans, seized control of the centre of ...

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 -- ...

This month, Mexico once again marks the 700th anniversary of México-Tenochtitlan’s founding. In July 2021, then-president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (colloquially known as AMLO) led a similar ...

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 ...

The excavation and interpretation of the offerings in the center of Mexico city, 1519-1978 -- The Templo Mayor project and the excavation of offerings, 1978-1991 -- The offerings and ritual ceremonies ...

Without a doubt, one of the Mesoamerican cultures that had the most prestige during the pre-Hispanic era was the Mexica culture. Los Mexicas was one of the cultures that settled in central Mexico, ...