By Lucia Torres This was a big year for the Mongabay Video Team. We leaned into solution-focused stories, in collaboration ...

Films are ethereal. They take you to new, mystical places never thought possible. The same happens when you watch documentaries as they take a lens on the life of a person, event or place. But instead ...

Early maps of the Americas made by indigenous people are rare—extremely rare. This map, dated 1593, is one of fewer than 100 such documents that have survived the ravages of time. It provides a ...

BJ Davis was important for the Aztecs in this matchup. He had 18 points in his 21 minutes on the court and accounted for 2 ...

Page from the Aztec codex Matrícula de Tributos(History and Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo) Before the Spanish arrived in 1519, the highest officials of the Aztec Empire could count on the provinces ...

Think “poinsettia” and you think “Christmas,” right? Well, think again. At the time of the first Christmas, the closest poinsettia to the little town of Bethlehem was 8,000 miles away, clinging to ...

In 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and 400 of his men marched into the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and knew at once they were in a strange and wondrous place. Even before their arrival, ...

Odds/Point Spread: Aztecs (+3.0) The North Texas Mean Green (11-2) are en route to University Stadium on Saturday, December ...

Everybody knows the story of the Pontiac Aztek, a vehicle widely considered to be one of the ugliest ever put into production—and a perfect example of an automaker bungling what seemed to be a great ...

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At a glance, the fall of the Aztec empire in the early 16th century seems like one of history’s clearest before-and-after moments: a powerful empire crushed almost instantly by a handful of Spanish ...