On display in Mexico City’s National Museum of Anthropology, the pictorial manuscript is opened to a folio that depicts eight Indigenous communities preparing for their voyage to Tenochtitlan, the ...

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, ...

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 ...

For years, Mexico has demanded the return of a treasured manuscript. Now the Aztec relic is back home from France — but on loan. The Azcatitlan Codex, a rare and prized manuscript that recounts the ...

What was early Aztec life like? The Florentine Codex gives viewers an inside look at Mexico’s early pre-Hispanic indigenous culture. A 16th-century manuscript is getting a modern-day update and will ...

Scholars from UCLA’s Latin American Institute are celebrating Getty’s release of the digital version of the Florentine Codex, an unparalleled repository of 16th-century Indigenous Mexican knowledge ...

KETCHUM — The Sun Valley Center for the Arts is pleased to announce a two-part art history lecture titled “The Aztecs, Conquest and Early Colonial Art of Mexico.” The lectures, presented by Dr.

Five-hundred years after the fall of Tenochtitlan, Aztec culture endures, thanks to its descendants, protectors, and centuries-old documents that are moving the Aztec language and lore into the age of ...

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 ...