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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...