Mexico City is marking the 700th anniversary of its founding with a series of public events on Saturday, including artistic ...

Aztec priests at Tenochtitlán offered a whole galaxy of starfish to the war god Huitzilopochtli 700 years ago, along with a trove of other objects from the distant edges of the Aztec Empire.

It was in 1521 that Hernán Cortés and his small army of soldiers conquered the Aztec empire, 500 years ago. Even though they were heavily outnumbered, the Spanish won thanks to their superior ...

-- Christopher Knight ‘The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire,’ Getty Villa, 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, (310) 440-7300, through July 5. Admission: Free, tickets required.

Spanish conquerors did not themselves bring inequality to the Aztec lands they invaded, they merely built on the socio-economic structure that was already in place, adapting it as it suited their ...