In the Aztec writing system, 10-Rabbit is 1502—the year, according to the codices surviving from the era, that the empire's most feared ruler, Ahuitzotl (pronounced ah-WEE-tzohtl), was laid to ...
In the process, the physical landscape changed, too. The invaders crushed temples and raised churches all over the Aztec Empire. And the object that we're looking at now shows us exactly how that ...
Centuries-old codices from what is now Mexico hold a wealth of knowledge about the Aztecs in their native language, including ...
How exactly the Medici family acquired the codex remains a mystery ... they were one of the few groups not devoured by the great Aztec empire. It is easy to get lost in the Boston Museum of ...
It is one of the best-preserved examples of pre-conquest Aztec-style writing that exists, after Catholic authorities in colonial-era Mexico dismissed such codices as the work of the devil and ...
In the process, the physical landscape changed, too. The invaders crushed temples and raised churches all over the Aztec Empire. And the object that we're looking at now shows us exactly how that ...