Joseph Besecker's Aztec Sense has been selected as the National HBPA's 2018 Claiming Crown Horse of the Year following a remarkable season in which the 5-year-old gelding went 8 for 8 and earned $ ...

Was the 1521 surrender of the great Indigenous empire to the Spanish crown a triumphant conquest ... Hernán Cortés wept after being routed by Aztec forces at Tenochtitlan (modern downtown ...

He adds that “Kopilli Ketzalli [the Aztec name for the headdress] is a precious royal crown, not a plume. It means spiritual power. It is like the Pope’s miter […] The history written by ...

Whole swaths of the Americas rapidly fell to the Spanish crown, a transformation begun by the ruthless conqueror of the Aztec Empire, Hernán Cortés. (See also: New clues to the lost fleet of ...

In 1535, the Spanish crown established New Spain as a viceroyalty. An engraving shows a battle scene during the capture of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán in 1521 by Spanish conquistadors.

Since the 1990s, Mexico has been demanding the return of the feather ornament of Moctezuma, which is on display in Vienna. Now Austria is accused of having even exchanged the crown.

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, a celebrated Mexican archaeologist who led the excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico ... which is named for Spanish Crown Princess Leonor, said in its citation.

Moctezuma II was the last Aztec emperor of Mexico "After the Spanish crown, the governments of independent Mexico, even the revolutionary ones, all recognised the pensions, until in 1934 they bid us ...