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Aztecs

Aztec double headed serpent carved in wood and decorated in turquoise mosaic pieces (Universal History Archive / Getty Images)

Aztecs

Video podcastAztec myths.

Video podcastAztec warfare.

Aztec warfare.

Coloured engraving of Malintzin

General Early Modern

15 minutes of fameCaroline Dodds Pennock chooses Malintzin

Meeting in Tenochtitlan between Hernan Cortes

Two worlds collide: Spanish conquistadors and Aztecs

A page of the Codex Borbonicus, an Aztec folding book painted around the time of the Spanish invasion

What can the Aztecs tell us about themselves? The secrets of their 'indigenous annals'.

Cundill Prize-winner Camilla Townsend on global history.

'Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs' by Camilla Townsend

New take on Aztec history revealed as winner of the 2020 Cundill History Prize

Aztecs in their own words.

Q&A: Why and how did the Aztecs practise human sacrifice?

The Aztecs: everything you wanted to know.

The real Aztecs: brutal, bloodthirsty... and caring?

In only two years, Hernán Cortés brought about the downfall of an efficient military civilisation through a combination of diplomacy, warfare, tactics, luck and sheer force of personality, writes Caroline Dodds. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Cortés and Montezuma: the conquering of Tenochtitlan

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