The world-famous British Museum, home of the contested Elgin Marbles sought by Greece, is leaping into another controversy with a special exhibit re-examining the life of Montezuma, the doomed last ...

"A sun of gold fully six feet broad and a moon of silver… all kinds of wondrous objects of various sizes. All the days of my life I have seen nothing that gladdened my heart so much," wrote Albrecht ...

Explore the incredible true stories behind the hunt for Montezuma's lost Aztec treasure, believed by some to be hidden in the ...

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, an ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “All the days of my life I have seen nothing that has so rejoiced my heart as these things,” Albrecht Dürer wrote in ...

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