This mask, which is on display at the British Museum in London, is one of several turquoise objects that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés likely took from the Aztec Empire as treasure in ...

For decades, the world has been fed a carefully constructed image of the West: a beacon of freedom, justice, and human rights. The United States—self-proclaimed leader of the free world—has ...

The mask is formed from a thin sheet of gold and would have been made in the living likeness of the deceased. The royal tomb where it was found contained the remains of eight people.