In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Spaniards attempted to describe the practice of Aztec painting through the lens of European art theory. Their rhetoric and iconography, which constructed a ...

Sometimes you don’t know just how much you don’t know. I came to that realization while reading “You Dreamed of Empires,” Álvaro Enrigue’s excellent new novel (translated by Natasha Wimmer) about the ...

Setting out for New Spain and the serendipitous gift of language -- The battle with the Tabascans and the acquisition of La Malinche -- Montezuma's message -- The gambler stakes all : "either win the ...

Buried in the Mexico City palace of Hernan Cortes is a mysterious, centuries-old skeleton. Its true identity had been obscured for decades — until now. Following an earthquake that damaged the palace ...

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The trail from the Seven Caves (before 1299) -- People of the valley (1350s-1450s) -- The city on the lake (1470-1518) -- Strangers to us people here -- A war to end all wars (1520-1521) -- Early days ...