These texts excruciatingly detail the human horror and the treachery of a mass murder, now known as...
Aztec
The sacred festivities date back to to the foundation of the city Tenochtitlan in the 14th century....
Day of the Dead rituals help people connect with their ancestors, which the Aztecs believed was key...
An archaeologist’s hip surgery prompts him to think of the experience of a Puebloan woman who survived...
Exploring Aztec class structure, marriage, family life, food, markets, religious practices, and recreation. Introduction The Aztecs built...
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...
A seminal manuscript tells the Indigenous side of a historic battle. Competing Histories This May marks 500...
Impacts of the Spanish invasion on the pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas. Spanish Treasure In the age...
Other Mesoamerican cultures also engaged in human sacrifice and built tzompantlis, but the Mexica brought it to...
The Spanish saw nothing of value in the indigenous culture and set out to systematically destroy everything...
Aztec civilization sustained millions of people and developed over thousands of years isolated from European and Asian...
The tlacuilo (codex painter) tradition endured the transition to colonial culture. Introduction Aztec codices (singular codex) are...
Aztec culture had complex mythological and religious traditions. Introduction The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central...
Some indigenous peoples of the Americas supported agriculturally advanced societies for thousands of years. Introduction The indigenous...
The sculpture was recovered at the House of the Eagles, the meeting place of eagle and jaguar...
The Mexica were a migrant people from the desert north who arrived in Mesoamerica in the 1300s....
The history of the Spanish and Aztecs is still strikingly visible in the center of Mexico City....
Europeans, speaking Spanish, Italian and French, had to communicate with indigenous peoples through Nahuatl, the lingua franca...
Hernán Cortés owed his conquest of the Aztecs to his expedition’s unknown, unseen secret weapon: the smallpox...
This is a story of four different skulls that reached three of the world’s largest museums under...
Moctezuma I expanded the Aztec Empire beyond the Valley of Mexico by constantly waging war. Introduction As...
The Aztec empire existed more than 500 years after the Maya abandoned their great inland city-states. Introduction...