Disguised Mexica merchants in Tzinacantlan acquiring quetzal feathers in Book 9. (all images courtesy of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, and by permission of MiBACT) After centuries of ...

Detail of the Codex Mendoza from its new digital platform (all screenshots by the author for Hyperallergic) One of the major textual resources on pre-Columbian Mexico is now online in a digital ...

A “spirit mirror” believed to have been used by Queen Elizabeth I’s famed political advisor John Dee was crafted in Aztec Mexico around 500 years ago, reinforcing the idea that the mirror was used by ...

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 ...

Three codices from the 16th and 17th century describe historical details about the Aztecs and the area that is now Mexico City. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The Mexican government has acquired three Aztec codices from the 16th and 17th centuries. SC / INAH / BNAH The Mexican government has acquired three illustrated Aztec codices from the late 16th to ...

The Getty unveiled this past week the final product of an eight-year effort to digitize a massive, centuries-old encyclopedia of central Mexican indigenous culture. That process has already started ...

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 ...