The Temple of the Plumed Serpent is ... the pyramid-studded, pre-Aztec metropolis 30 miles northeast of present-day Mexico City. Dig sites sloshed over with water; a torrent of mud and debris ...

In 1519 Hernan Cortés sailed from Cuba, landed in Mexico and made his way to the Aztec capital. Miguel Leon­Portilla ... grasped Motecuhzoma's hands and patted his back to show their affection for him ...

Aztec society, whose powerful empire stretched over what is now southern Mexico from the 14th through ... She was buried in a special temple at twilight, and her soul traveled to the house of ...