Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. The author is a Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers ...

Camilla Townsend’s new book, "Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs," documents the story of the Aztecs from an entirely new perspective, that of the Aztecs themselves. When it comes to staying ...

Camilla Townsend, a professor at Rutgers University, won the 2020 Cundill History Prize for Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Oxford). In awarding the citation the prize committee wrote, "Using ...

Translation of Historia de las Indias de Nueva-Espana y islas de Tierra Firme. "Covers the entire Historia de las Indias but does not include the books dedicated to rites and the calendar" Continued 1 ...

From the distance of five centuries we often look back to the conquest of Mexico as an all-out defeat for Aztec civilization, a victory by scrappy Spanish conquistadors over the awed and unprepared ...

Mesoamerican cultures spanned the the areas of Mexico and Central America for centuries. These had distinctive food cultures ...

The Aztecs, one of the most intriguing and sophisticated civilizations to have ever existed, left an indelible mark on Mexico’s cultural and historical landscape. Before their dramatic fall to Spanish ...

Aztec writing sometimes used different colours to refine a word's meaning: This page is from an early 16th century book about Aztec imperial taxation, the Matricula de Tributos, now in the National ...

In a sense, 1521 is Mexico's 1619. A foundational moment that for centuries has been shaped by just one perspective: a European one. The story of how Hernán Cortés and a few hundred Spaniards ...

The trail from the Seven Caves (before 1299) -- People of the valley (1350s-1450s) -- The city on the lake (1470-1518) -- Strangers to us people here -- A war to end all wars (1520-1521) -- Early days ...