Susan Kellogg's history of the Aztecs offers a concise yet comprehensive assessment of Aztec history and civilization, emphasizing how material life and the economy functioned in relation to politics, ...
In Fifth Sun, she writes an informative historical account that is a complex and captivating revisionist history of the Aztecs, drawn solely from their own texts, told in their own words ...
This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Where do babies come from? The Aztecs’ answer to the classic child’s question was that they came ...
Centuries-old codices from what is now Mexico hold a wealth of knowledge about the Aztecs in their native ... Mexico's ...
It all starts with the cacao bean. Yes, we spelled that right - cacao is the Spanish word for chcahuatl, which is what Aztecs called the beans chocolate is made from. It’s thought that English ...
Frida Kahlo’s 1945 dual portrait with her husband is now on view in “Beyond the Myth” at the Dallas Museum of Art.
Meanwhile, art history buffs head to the Chilean Museum ... Highlights include pieces from the Inca and Aztec empires and Chinchorro mummies, a funerary technique that's 2,000 years older than ...
Elton Monroe Duran said he dedicated the Alebrijes pieces to Mexicantown residents in the hopes their imaginations would take ...
Aztecs fans should be forever grateful that Sanfilippo took the road less traveled. It provided inspiration for the SDSU football team’s iconic Aztec calendar helmets. The calendar also appears ...
Mexico's national cathedral – the vaulting, austere, ornate church on the Zócalo's north end – was once the site of an ancient Aztec precinct ... interest in Mexican history and architecture ...