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• Don’t call us traitors: descendants of Cortés’s allies defend role in toppling Aztec empire -- The Guardian (13 August 2021)
  
  
• Discovery of iron anchors raises hopes of finding Hernán Cortés's ships -- The Guardian (20 December 2019)
  
  
• Discovery of Priest's Grave Sheds Light on First Days of Spanish Conquest of Mexico -- The Guardian (13 April 2016)
  
  
• Mummy Genomes Reveal Just How Catastrophic European Contact Was for New World -- Science (01 April 2016)
  
  
• Spanish Conquest Left Its Imprint on Men's Genes in Panama -- EurekAlert (22 February 2016)
  
  
• Conquistador Brought Early-Onset Alzheimer’s to Colombian Town -- New Scientist (19 November 2015)
  
  
• Hernan Cortés: Conqueror of the Aztecs -- LiveScience (28 August 2013)
  
  
• Columbus May Not Have Been First to America -- Discovery News (03 May 2012)
  
  
• Q&A: The Anthropology of Searching for Aliens -- Wired (04 April 2012)
  
  
• Columbus May Have Found Syphilis in The New World -- Discovery News (05 January 2012)

• Africans Came with Columbus to New World -- LiveScience (20 March 2009)
  
  
• Archaeologists Track Infamous Conquistador Through Southeast -- ScienceDaily (05 November 2009)
  
  
• Conquistador Was Deep in U.S.: "Stunning" Jewelry Find Redraws Route? [Hernando de Soto]-- National Geographic News (01 November 2011)
  
  
• THE CONQUEST OF THE AZTEC EMPIRE: HERNÁN CORTÉS
  
  
• Exploring the Early Americas -- Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress
  
  
• Student Teacher Resource Center: Mexico: Cortez -- Thomas H. Frederiksen
  
  
• Student Teacher Resource Center: Mexico: Diaz -- Thomas H. Frederiksen
  
  
• Conquistadors (Cortés, Pizarro, Orellana, Cabeza de Vaca) -- PBS
  
  
• Exploring the Early Americas -- Jay I. Kislak Collection, Library of Congress
  
  
• Hernán Cortés (Hernando Cortez) -- Discoverers Web
  • Malinche (Malintzin)
  • Pedro de Alvarado
  • Nuño de Guzmán
    
    
• Hernando Cortes on the Web -- Isidore of Seville
  
  
• Pre-Columbian and the Encounter -- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  
  
• Siege of Tenochtitlán -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Spanish Conquest of Mexico -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Teeth Of Columbus' Crew Flesh Out Tale Of New World Discovery -- ScienceDaily (20 March 2009)
  
  
• Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern -- Harvard Classics, Vol. 33, Bartleby.com