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The specialist in Mesoamerican history warns against revisionism: ‘The course of the conquest could have been different ...

The Aztec Empire was one of the most powerful civilizations in pre-Columbian America. Its cities, engineering, and agriculture were unmatched in the region. But at the center of Aztec life was an ...

Noting that animals were seen by the Aztecs as “food for the gods”, he explains that the Totocalli was no ordinary zoo, and that the creatures it housed provided the ritual lifeblood that enabled the ...

Along West Africa's slave coast, a painful past is being preserved — and marketed — raising questions about memory, tourism ...