Mexico's president said on Monday that he had given his wife the “almost impossible mission” of persuading Austria to return a feather headdress said to have been worn by Aztec emperor ...

The Penacho feather headdress allegedly worn by Aztec emperor Moctezuma II is displayed at the Museum fur Volkerkunde (Museum of Ethnology) in Vienna on November 16, 2012.

Made up of hundreds of long quetzal feathers and over a thousand small gold plates, this 16th century Aztec headdress is the only one of its kind to have survived. Of late, however, its inclusion in ...

Mexico City is celebrating 700 years since its founding with public events on Saturday, highlighting its Indigenous roots.

Mexico's president says he has sent his wife to Austria on an "impossible" mission to recover the headdress of a legendary Aztec king. Andrés Manuel López Obrador said his wife — writer and ...

Mexico City - Talks between Mexico and Austria on the temporary return of an Aztec feather headdress could be a model for the return of other hotly contested artifacts, and may provide a chance to ...

The famous headdress is nearly a yard (meter) wide and made from more than 450 elegant, vivid green feathers of the quetzal bird mounted in a jewel and gold encrusted crown.

MEXICO CITY – Mexicans voiced new hope Wednesday that they will finally convince Austria to return a nearly five-century-old feather headdress which may have belonged to Aztec emperor Montezuma, which ...

Mexico's president said Monday that he had given his wife the "almost impossible mission" of persuading Austria to return a feather headdress said to have been worn by Aztec emperor Moctezuma.

It goes on to argue that Aztec rulers wore a triangular crown encrusted with turquoise, not a feather headdress. Carmen Aguilera, a historian at Mexico's National Anthropology Museum, disagrees.

It is one of the star attractions of Vienna’s Weltmuseum, a resplendent ancient Aztec headdress of iridescent blue-green feathers almost two metres wide with a centrepiece sporting hundreds of ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday pressed Austria to loan Mexico a bejeweled feather headdress considered one of the ...