Discover the trail up a volcano on an island in Mexico's Sea of Cortez. The journey is filled with wildlife, and the top ...

The Aztec outnumbered the Spanish, but that didn't stop Hernán Cortés from seizing Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, in 1521. This 18th-century oil painting, part of the Conquest of Mexico series at ...

There’s usually a fun element to fictionalizing history. Imagine a world where Dwight Eisenhower shot Adolf Hitler to end World War II in place of the führer’s bunker suicide, or John Wilkes Booth ...

A nearly 500-year-old manuscript signed by Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador who led the fall of the Aztec Empire, has ...

Although we know the region today as Mexico, Cortez, working for Spain, conquered the Aztec Empire in 1521 and it became part of New Spain,… Login to continue reading Login Sign up for complimentary a ...

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 ...

How the Cortez got its name In his 2016 memoir Shoe Dog, Phil Knight writes that Onitsuka sent Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight a shoe prototype they were collaborating on in 1967 — the company wanted ...