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 Codex Cospi is one of the few Aztec 'books' in the world and it is kept at Bologna University Library. A new research project will investigate with unprecedented detail the painting techniques and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Introduction -- Texupan/Nundaa -- Tecpan (palace) -- Teopan (church) -- Writing and language -- Money -- Silk -- Conclusions -- Methods -- Transcription of codex ...
"This volume of papers stems from a symposium held at Tulane University on April 3-5, 1998, to honor Mary Elizabeth (Betsy) Smith"--Introd. In Tlamatinime : the wise men and women of Aztec Mexico / ...