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Forthcoming exhibition: Moctezuma, Aztec Ruler, at the British Museum

Almost 500 years after European adventurers dressed him up as a collaborator and stole his throne, the British Museum is preparing to rehabilitate one of history’s great rulers.

Moctezuma II, or Montezuma as he is often called today, was the last elected Aztec emperor and ruled over an empire that stretched from the shores of the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico. However, posterity knows him as the man with the misfortune to be in charge when Hernán Cortés’s conquistadores arrived in Mexico in 1519, giving up his people’s independence voluntarily and paving the way for centuries of Spanish rule...
Read entire article at Times (UK)