MEXICO CITY — A 16th-century document considered one of the most important primary sources on the Aztecs of pre-Columbian Mexico went digital this month with a new app that aims to spur research and ...

Page from the Aztec codex Matrícula de Tributos(History and Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo) Before the Spanish arrived in 1519, the highest officials of the Aztec Empire could count on the provinces ...

Detail of the Codex Mendoza from its new digital platform (all screenshots by the author for Hyperallergic) One of the major textual resources on pre-Columbian Mexico is now online in a digital ...

*Originally published on December 3, 2020. Picture the Aztecs and what images come to mind? A bloodthirsty people sacrificing captives and ripping out their hearts to frenzied crowds? The hapless and ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The Aztec didn't use SMS, emails or any form of communication that we do today. Instead, the Mexica ...

Last month marked 500 years since the fall of the Aztec Empire. Centred in Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, the Aztecs built an enormous city in the middle of a lake after seeing an eagle with a snake ...