This civilization lasted 3,500 years, from about 2000 B.C.E. to 1500 C.E. At its peak, it included...
Mesoamerica
These texts excruciatingly detail the human horror and the treachery of a mass murder, now known as...
The sacred festivities date back to to the foundation of the city Tenochtitlan in the 14th century....
Works of Mesoamerican art often include references to calendars and time. Introduction We think of calendars as...
Exploring the Aztecs, a Mesoamerican people who built a vast empire in what is today central Mexico...
The Aztec painted language operated at two levels – identifying glyphs and strategic placement and presentation. Writing...
Other Mesoamerican cultures also engaged in human sacrifice and built tzompantlis, but the Mexica brought it to...
This would have been placed in a grave to embody the shaman’s power that would help the...
Aztec culture had complex mythological and religious traditions. Introduction The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central...
By 2000 BCE, many agrarian village communities had been settled throughout the Andes and the surrounding regions....
The sculpture was recovered at the House of the Eagles, the meeting place of eagle and jaguar...
Lake Titicaca was long considered the origin and centre of the cosmos by the local populace and...
These burial places formed the centers of small-scale chiefdoms and shared a set of sculptural motifs and...
The observation of the sky was of considerable importance to the Maya, Aztecs and other prehisanic peoles...
The Maya Civilisation can be traced as far back as 2000 BCE. Introduction Geology is not just...
Between 250 and 900 CE, writing, religion, and art flourished. In certain respects, this era was the...
The ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan had the most aberrant design of any city in ancient Mesoamerica....
Mesoamerican architecture is the set of architectural traditions produced by pre-Columbian cultures and civilizations of Mesoamerica. Introduction...
An almost life-size terracotta Aztec Eagle Warrior, one of the elite warrior groups in the Aztec military. 13-15th century...
Archaeological site of ChavÃn de Huántar (photo: Julio Martinich, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) The artistic style seen in stone...
Despite the extensive study of Moche iconography, the motivations behind the practice remain poorly understood By Christina Taggart...
The feather merchant, Florentine Codex Book 10, folio 41r / Creative Commons Feathers, especially those from colorful...
AcequÃa del Camino Inca entrada a la Huaca de los Monos / Photo by Johnattan Rupire, Wikimedia...
A model reconstruction of the Temple Mayor at the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. In use from the 14th to early 16th century...
An Aztec ceremonial knife with a cedarwood handle and flint blade. The figure of the handle is covered in...
A map indicating the maximum extent of the Aztec civilization which flourished between c. 1345 and 1521 CE in...
Teotihuacan, 300 BCE Teotihuacan, located in the Basin of Central Mexico, was the largest, most influential, and...
A mask of jadeite from the Olmec civilization of the Gulf coast, Mesoamerica, 900-500 BCE. Provenance: Rio Pesquero, Mexico....
Basketry bowl with checkerboard and arrow head motif / Mint Museum Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh /...
One of Julius Shulman’s views of Chichen Itza with a Chac Mool in the foreground. Julius Shulman...