Time

We Learned About the Aztecs From Their Conquerors—But New Research Is Letting Them Speak for Themselves

A stone Aztec calendar of the sun, on display at a museum circa 1930 A stone Aztec calendar of the sun, on display at a museum circa 1930Ewing Galloway—Getty Images With the U.S.-Mexico border a focal ...
Artnet

A 500-Year-Old Aztec Tower of Human Skulls Is Even More Terrifyingly Humongous Than Previously Thought, Archaeologists Find

Spanish conquistadors destroyed the Huei Tzompantli tower, but archaeologist are unearthing its ruins. Archaeologists have unearthed a new section of the Huey Tzompantli, a “tower of skulls” in what ...
Los Angeles Times

Art review: ‘The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire’ @ Getty Villa

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. ‘The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire’ is a show of modest size but ...
New York Magazine

Guts and Glory

The exhibitions of ancient art that pass through New York, especially those at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, often have a High Church atmosphere. Scholar-monks add to the storehouse of knowledge as ...
insider.si.edu

The Oxford handbook of the Aztecs edited by Deborah L. Nichols and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría

Introduction: Aztec studies: trends and themes / Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría, Deborah L. Nichols -- Archaeology of the Aztecs. Ancient stone sculptures: in search of the Mexica past / Eduardo Matos ...