MEXICO CITY – A 16th century document describing the Aztec society of ancient Mexico has gone digital with a new app that aims to spur research and discussion. The Codex Mendoza is a 1542 illustrated ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) – A 16th century document considered one of the most important primary sources on the Aztecs of pre-Columbian Mexico went digital Thursday with a new app that aims to spur research ...
The Aztec world didn’t disappear into legend. It left records on screenfold books made from bark paper and animal hide. Reading them today matters because they are the Aztecs’ own self-portrait, ...
The Library of Congress has made the extraordinarily rare Code x Quetzalecatzin available online. Also known as the Aztec Codex, it was created sometime between 1570 and 1595 and shows native Aztec ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A 16th century document considered one of the most important primary sources on the Aztecs of pre-Columbian Mexico went digital Thursday with a new app that aims to spur research ...
Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has secured the colorful San Andrés Tetepilco codices. These Aztec documents from the late 16th and early 17th centuries recount the ...
The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective that is often missing from historical accounts of the period. Disguised Mexica merchants in Tzinacantlan acquiring quetzal ...
This Aztec pictogram depicts warriors drowning as a temple burns in the background. New research links the scene to a 1507 earthquake. Courtesy of Gerardo Suárez and Virginia García-Acosta A ...
Before their defeat by the Spanish in 1521, the triple alliance ruled Mesoamerica through complex trade networks—and warfare. The Mexica priest Cuauhtlequetzqui points out the place where his people ...