Centuries-old codices from what is now Mexico hold a wealth of knowledge about the Aztecs in their native language, including details about the founding of their capital, their conquests and their ...

The Library of Congress has made the extraordinarily rare Code x Quetzalecatzin available online. Also known as the Aztec Codex, it was created sometime between 1570 and 1595 and shows native Aztec ...

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 ...

The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective that is often missing from historical accounts of the period. Disguised Mexica merchants in Tzinacantlan acquiring quetzal ...

The woman long blamed for her role in the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is getting a modern makeover. The Spanish called ...

Combining classic cartoon style with the Aztec codex, Menchaca has created a visual allegory equating self-sacrifice with border issues in the large front windows of Artpace. “It's based on the ...

According to the Anales de Tlatelolco, the earth cracked open in central Mexico on February 19, 1575. The ancient codex, composed around the time the Aztec Empire fell to Spanish conquistadors, ...

New chemical analysis of Aztec turquoise artifacts suggests the stone didn’t come from the Southwestern US as archaeologists have long thought, which raises questions about the scale of long-distance ...