People visit the Zocalo marking celebrations of the 700th anniversary of the founding of the Aztec Empire Tenochtitlan, the ...

France invaded Mexico under Emperor Napoleon III, citing unpaid debts as a pretext to expand French influence and establish a ...

The Aztec Empire flourished in the Valley of Mexico between A.D. 1325 and 1519 and was the last great civilization before the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century.

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EMPIRE BUILDERS: MEXICO, Episode 3 - Porfirio Díaz, general and political who served seven terms as President of Mexico. Episode 4: "The Mexican Revolution" Premieres Monday, Dec. 11 at 10 p.m ...

With all the power of his vast fortune, his 16 newspapers and his granite will, the late William Randolph Hearst fought to the end to hold on to his fabulous 1,625,000-acre Mexican ranch, ...

The most valuable obsidian The Aztecs didn’t discover obsidian. It was already the most common raw material in Mesoamerica when they arrived in the Basin of Mexico in 1200, and the use of ...

In the seventh century A.D. the Snake rulers presided over this capital city—in what today is southern Mexico—and its largest structure, a pyramid 180 feet tall.

The second Mexican Empire promises to prove as ephemeral as the first was durable. That of the Montezumas, which CORTEZ overthrew, had existed for centuries, but the empire which the Third ...