Indigenous wall paintings uncovered at Mexican convent
Mexico City, MexicoAP Indigenous symbols like a feather headdress, an axe and a shield have been found under layers of lime plaster at open-air chapels in a convent just south of Mexico City, experts announced Monday. The finds suggest Spanish priests not only altered their church architecture to accommodate the large number of Indigenous converts, […]
Mexican President asks Indigenous for forgiveness over Spanish conquest
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday asked the country’s Indigenous Mexica peoples for forgiveness for the abuses inflicted on them during the bloody 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire. Lopez Obrador spoke in front of a large replica temple built to commemorate 500 years since the fall of the […]