Let's turn to a story from more than 500 years ago to the Spanish conquest of Mexico. For years, the story of European dominance has been largely accepted as historical truth. But a closer look at ...

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 ...

According to tradition, the Aztec god of the sun and war, Huitzilopochtli (whose name in Náhuatl means "left-handed hummingbird" or "hummingbird of the south"), commanded the Aztecs to leave their ...

Mesoamerican civilizations and Aztec archaeology -- Evolution of Aztec civilization -- Geography of the Aztec world -- Society and government -- Warfare -- Religion, cosmology, and mythology -- ...

Late last month, Andrew Laird, professor of Classics and humanities and Hispanic studies, learned that his 2024 book “Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico” ...

More than two millennia ago, Teotihuacan was a thriving metropolis in central Mexico with up to 125,000 inhabitants. The city had gigantic pyramids and was a cultural center in Mesoamerica at the time ...