MEXICO CITY – A 16th century document describing the Aztec society of ancient Mexico has gone digital with a new app that aims to spur research and discussion. The Codex Mendoza is a 1542 illustrated ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) – A 16th century document considered one of the most important primary sources on the Aztecs of pre-Columbian Mexico went digital Thursday with a new app that aims to spur research ...

The Mexican government has formally asked Pope Francis for the temporary return of several ancient indigenous manuscripts held in the Vatican library ahead of next year's 500-year anniversary of the ...

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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 ...

The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology is presenting a large exhibition of 44 codices for its show, “Codices of Mexico: Memories and Wisdom”, presenting artifacts from a fascinating time in ...

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, ...

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 ...

Pictogram representing an earthquake that took place in 1507 somewhere in Mexico. According to a pair of researchers who have systematically studied Mexico's historical earthquakes, a 500-year-old ...

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