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 ...

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 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 ...

Travel with us down the ancient trade route that once connected the capital city of Mexico to the Atlantic coast. Sixty miles down this busy highway, lies the scene of a massacre that occurred more ...

The Aztec world didn’t disappear into legend. It left records on screenfold books made from bark paper and animal hide. Reading them today matters because they are the Aztecs’ own self-portrait, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 1,200-pound stone head of an Aztec moon goddess has moved into the Getty Villa. So have life-size statues of a warrior adorned with eagle feathers, a duck-billed wind god and a demon known as the ...