"The only images we have of an Aztec ruler are of Moctezuma II, and these were made based on descriptions from the Spaniards after his death," López Luján says, referring to the last emperor who ...

Historians believe that Emperor Moctezuma, who ruled from 1502 to 1520, probably gave the plume to Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes who took it to Europe. Lopez Obrador's plea came on the ...

There was a moment not far into the Moctezuma exhibition when the mystique and absolute power of this last elected Emperor of the Aztecs struck me. I had walked past a map showing Moctezuma II’s ...

that they are the heirs of Moctezuma II, the emperor whose realm was brutally overthrown by the Spaniards in the Great Conquest of 1521. In the course of the Spanish Conquest, Aztec culture was ...

that they are the heirs of Moctezuma II, the emperor whose realm was brutally overthrown by the Spaniards in the Great Conquest of 1521. In the course of the Spanish Conquest, Aztec culture was ...

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The meeting of Hernán Cortés and Emperor Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin, or Moctezuma — never Montezuma ... one of which — the Aztec empire — has often been shoddily reproduced, its complexity ...

In addition, there are many things that have not been fully explained, such as the death of the Mexican emperor Moctezuma, who received Cortes and his men in Tenochtitlan, in 1519. Moctezuma was ...

(Adrian Hernández/Wikipedia via Courthouse News) MEXICO CITY (CN) — A feathered headdress some say belonged to Aztec emperor Moctezuma is the centerpiece of Mexico’s yearslong dispute with Austria ...

The Aztec, who referred to themselves as the ... diseased thugs were the incarnation of Mexica gods, and that Emperor Moctezuma II “gave away” his empire to the Spanish invaders.

A day earlier, Aztec Emperor Moctezuma was killed, or possibly assassinated, according to the native informants of one Spanish chronicler, which promoted a frenzied battle that forced Cortes ...

A newly discovered trove of Aztec sacrifices could lead archaeologists to an elusive Aztec emperor's tomb. Such a discovery would mark a first since no Aztec royal burial has yet been found ...