Centuries-old codices from what is now Mexico hold a wealth of knowledge about the Aztecs in their native language, including details about the founding of their capital, their conquests and their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...