"From Christopher Columbus to "first anthropologist" Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers, conquistadors, clerics, scientists, and travelers wrote about the "Indian" ...
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 ...
Translation of Historia de las Indias de Nueva-Espana y islas de Tierra Firme. "Covers the entire Historia de las Indias but does not include the books dedicated to rites and the calendar" Continued 1 ...
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Spaniards attempted to describe the practice of Aztec painting through the lens of European art theory. Their rhetoric and iconography, which constructed a ...
The Aztec Empire was one of the most dominant forces the world had ever seen, but it would fall from grace in a span of two ...
There was an online ruckus a few months ago when social media users got a taste of Emily Wilson’s translation of “The Iliad,” with some readers bemoaning that it sounded too modern while others ...
CALPULALPAN, Mexico — Skeletons found at an unearthed site in Mexico show Aztecs captured, ritually sacrificed and partially ate several hundred people traveling with invading Spanish forces in 1520.
The Aztec emperors who ruled much of the land that became Mexico were defeated by a Spanish-led force that seized the city on Aug. 13, 1521. Despite all that was lost in the event 500 years ago - an ...