The Conquest of Mexico - myText CNM

Key Moments of the Fall of the Aztec Empire

🪶 Montezuma’s Penacho: A Crown of Feathers, A Stolen Legacy 🇲🇽 One of Mexico’s most treasured ancestral artifacts, the Penacho de Moctezuma is not in Mexico—but in a museum in Vienna, Austria. This dazzling headdress, made of shimmering quetzal feathers and gold, is a masterpiece of Aztec craftsmanship—measuring 116 cm tall and 175 cm wide. Believed to have belonged to Moctezuma II, the last great tlatoani of the Mexica, it was reportedly gifted to Hernán Cortés in the early 16th century. Tod