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Nearly five hundred years ago, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés arrived in Tenochtitlan. Emperor Moctezuma II received the Spaniards warmly with gifts of jewels and fine clothes, perhaps because he believed that the armored Spaniards marked the « Continue »
(Photo credit: The British Library) The Getty Research Institute announced last week the acquisition of an album comprising 45 photographs of Mayan sites and one photograph of the iconic Aztec calendar stone. These rare photographs were taken in « Continue »
Cacao Pods (Theobroma cacao) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The sweet, unique taste of chocolate is loved around the world. Even people in ancient times found it incredibly alluring. Chocolate was first discovered and eaten by the Olmecs around « Continue »
Detail of first page from the Boturini Codex, depicting the departure from Aztlán. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A lot of people still picture the Aztecs as a warlike, barbaric race. But in case you didn’t know, the ancient Aztecs had an incredibly « Continue »
English: One of the , prehistoric s in the , near Blythe, California. Español: Figura oeste de Blythe Intaglios, zona arqueológica de California (Estados Unidos) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In the desert of the Palo Verde Valley near Blythe, « Continue »
When Mexico City began excavations for a new extension of its subway system, no one knew that they would uncover nearly 100 Aztec burials. Included in the find was a tzompantli, or display rack meant to showcase the severed heads of enemy warriors « Continue »