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When Aztec emissaries arrived in 1520 to Tzintzuntzan, the capital of the Tarascan Kingdom in what is now the Mexican state of Michoacán, they carried a warning from the Aztec emperor, Cuauhtémoc.

In four episodes, the BBC’s Civilisations series tells the story of the fall of the Romans, Aztecs, Egypt’s Ptolemies and Japan’s Edo Samurais. The show tells these stories through a combination of recreated dramatic scenes, explanation from experts and discussions of objects from the British Museum. Here, four experts in…

The Hospital de Jesus in Mexico City’s bustling historic center covers most of a city block

An indigenous epic, macabre short stories from Spain, Aztec adventures and more

In 1177BC, Amurapi, the last king of Ugarit in modern-day Syria, wrote in cuneiform on baked clay to the Hittite emperor Suppiluliuma II: “My father behold, the enemy’s ships have come; my cities were burned, and they did evil things in my country.” Soon, both the Hittite and Ugaritic kingdoms…

The Spanish theatrical producer and artist was detained by the National Police. The case is regarding the hiring for his play "Maliche," which tells the story between Hernán Cortés and the Mexican slave

A new analysis of a skeleton buried under Hernán Cortés' palace in Mexico reveals that it doesn't belong to a monk, as was long thought.

The Mexican writer’s imaginative riff on the conquest of the Aztecs is an enigmatic, drily funny farce

Real events are compressed into one extraordinary day as Spanish conquistadors penetrate the heart of Aztec civilisation, in a novel of hallucinatory vividness