Digital artist Thomas Kole, originally from Amersfoort, Netherlands, has re-created the capital of the Aztec ... a lake look like?" wondered Kole, as he explored Mexico City on Google Maps.

Meet the ancient Mexican metropolis. Situated on Lake Texcoco we find the incredible capital city of the Aztec empire; Tenochtitlan. When Spanish conquistadors under the command of Hernan Cortes ...

Tenochtitlán was an Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521. Built on an island on Lake Texcoco, it had a system of canals and causeways that supplied the hundreds of thousands of ...

and religious empire of Precolumbian Mexico based on a small settlement in the western swamps of Lake Texcoco. As a result of the spoils of territory conquered by Tenochtitlan, and the tributes it ...

Echeverria hopes that the area of the central Mexico City valley once covered by Lake Texcoco ... as the 1400s under Aztec Emperor Montezuma. One of the goals of the Lago Texcoco Park is to ...