When Cortés and his conquistadors overran the Aztec empire in 1520, they found “a society unlike any they had encountered hitherto,” said Emily Sharpe in The Art Newspaper. The natives of the region ...

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CHICAGO (AP) _ An ambitious new exhibition at the Field Museum reassembles some fragments of a world that was shattered forever on Aug. 31, 1521. That was when the small Spanish army of conquistador ...

For thousands of years, cultures all over the world have had effigies -- statues, figurines, carvings or other images that represent people, animals or mythical characters. Religious or spiritual ...