Los Angeles Times

Rare 16th-century Mesoamerican codex goes online at the Library of Congress

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 ...
Hyperallergic

Stunning Codex Documenting Aztec Culture Now Fully Digitized

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 ...
Artnet

These Rare Aztec Manuscripts, Long in Private Hands, Were Just Acquired by Mexico

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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Aztec Pictograms Are the First Written Records of Earthquakes in the Americas

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 ...