Acosta is quite sure of his lineage: up until the 1930s, his family received a pension granted by the government to Moctezuma's descendants. And Pignatelli's family had inherited one of Cortes ...

Matthew Restall’s 2018 book “When Montezuma Met Cortes: the True Story of the Meeting That Changed History” and Camilla Townsend’s 2019 work, “Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs.” ...

Álvaro Enrigue's new novel reimagines Hernán Cortés' and Moctezuma's empires : NPR's Book of the Day You Dreamed of Empires sets the scene for a violent historical encounter: the war between ...

In the mid-19th century, the eminent historian Thomas Babington Macaulay insisted that “every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.” The extraordinary history ...

Steven Spielberg is planning to direct an epic drama about the relationship between Aztec emperor Montezuma and Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes that has Javier Bardem circling the latter role ...

Amazon is not moving forward on its series about conquistador Hernan Cortes after the show ... assaulted them between 2013 and 2019. “Cortes y Moctezuma” would have dealt with how Cortes ...