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Between them they have created a unique team which has worked for over 30 years in partnership with the Museum of Mankind, the British Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts, the BBC, over 2,000 primary schools the length and breadth of England, and a wealth of institutions, groups and individuals seeking to learn from Mexico’s culture and people. If you would like to call on their expertise, please phone Mexicolore on +44 (0)20 7622 9577.
Mexicolore is a small independent teaching team based in London providing specialist educational services on Mexico and teaching resources on the Mexica (Aztecs), centered on team visits to schools and museums, interactive videoconferencing lessons, artefact loan boxes, and a range of teaching resources, on Mexico in general and the Aztecs in particular, plus background information and advice, for schools and museums throughout England.
Please visit our main Aztecs/Mexica website! Either click on ‘Aztec Pages’ (left hand menu) or follow the link in the ‘Latest News’ box above...
We also offer:
• traditional hand-made papier mache Mexican piñatas!
• authentic Mexican costumes, decorations and props for hire and sale;
• a unique photo library on Mexico;
• full consultancy service covering everything from Mexican entertainers to Day of the Dead festival traditions.
Michael Wood brings to life online...
...the clash of two worlds
Download free learning resource
Full colour illustrations of Aztec calendar signs or ‘fates’
A mysterious turquoise skull mask
featured at Expo 67 in Montreal...
Did the Aztecs force you
to be who you were?
Our Mexican piñatas
are the real enchilada...
Glad Rags
with a Mexican flavour
A unique
image source
Authentic Mexican food
Not Tex-Mex!
Learn from a mistake...
Can you read her name?
Test your knowledge of the Aztecs
with our latest online quiz
Mesoamericans
run rings round us
Discover a musical instrument
that imitates a jaguar’s growl!
Aztec herbal medicine
was highly effective
Tiahue...!’
“Let’s go...!’ - Get involved with Mexicolore...
Is there a name for
the Aztec speech glyph?
Proverbs
and Pronunciations
Mexican heritage here in the UK...
... all on a single beautifully produced DVD-ROM
Tec ANIMATES A PAGE
from the Codex Mendoza!
Music song and dance among the Aztecs
- a short introduction
To the Aztecs numbers were sacred
and really did COUNT in life...
How did Moctezuma die?
How did he WANT to die?
Plants and animals had a strong cosmomagical
meaning in the lives of the Mexica/Aztecs
Is it a spaceman? Is it a WW1 airman?
No, it’s just good old Goggle Man...
Most recommended book
for learning Náhuatl...
Take part in an attitude survey
on the Aztecs...
Winner takes all in
the Mexica straw poll game!
Every 52 years the Mexica feared
the end of the world...
Health profiles compared:-
Aztec warrior v Spanish conquistador
A gallery of portraits
of leading Mexica deities
The ‘Manuscript of a Dogging’ is a lasting memorial
of the violence of spiritual as well as military conquest...
Welcome to a new Maya calendar cycle
- ‘Bak’tun the future...’!
We reckon this is the best ‘Aztec’
alternate history novel written so far
Aztec borders -
new downloadable resources...
See and Be Seen - the meaning of
‘smoking’ obsidian mirrors
Watch a delightful animation
on the Aztec life cycle...
A copy of the Tizoc Stone -
- in Haslemere Museum!
INTERACTIVE CHALLENGES,
PUZZLES and a LOT of info...
A world expert reveals how Aztec medicines
come to be at the heart of modern research
A ‘tail’ of the unexpected -
- a bit hard to (de)SCRIBE...
Aztec society was rigidly structured
- but you could move up and down...
For the Aztecs the eagle hunts like a sunbeam,
and leads the sun across the sky...
One Spanish chronicler claimed the Aztecs had
2,000 gods! We name the key ones...
The ‘personified knives’ from Ofrenda 125
of the sacred precinct of Tenochtitlan
For the Mexica, heavens and ring
of celestial water meet on the horizon
Aztec place names give us insight
into the Mexica people and their lives...
Did any pre-Columbian dances
survive the Spanish Conquest?
How Mexican students developed interactive museum materials
using Mexicolore’s Sunstone resource...
A young novelist from Taiwan
consults Mexicolore about his Aztec story...
Don your masks for ‘Trick or Treat?’
- the Mexica version...
The classic story
of the origin of people...
The story of how an Italian artist
created a beautiful model of the Sunstone
Mexico was a latecomer
to the copper industry...
Deep in rural West Sussex there’s...
... a rare 18th. century Mexican embroidered ‘rebozo’
Most Mexica deities were broadly linked
to specific cities, towns, or neighbourhoods
The Discovery of Corn -
- and the role of brave little ants!
INTERACTIVE MUSIC
‘Az Tec plays it’
Ancient two finger gesture -
Aggression? No: agreement!
East west...
Home’s best!
Náhuatl has always been a language
rich in colour...
The V&A Museum has, stored away, a mysterious
‘monster’ metate which we’ve been allowed to see
Cacti have been a source of food
and medicine for millennia
How to make a simple Aztec
‘quechquémitl’ (girl’s neck-cape)
Did blood coursing in Mexica veins
match the coursing of stars above?
Follow the road taken by Cortés
to reach Tenochtitlan in 1519...
Famine drove the Mexica
to sell themselves to feed their families...
Shakespeare’s dramatisation of English history
inspires a new play on the rise of the Aztecs
12-year-old Alex Cottriall acts
in ‘A Soldier in Every Son’...
Linear time has a beginning and end -
Cyclical time just keeps going round...
Lightning and rain are associated
with ancient beliefs in Mesoamerica
Children keep sitting on my head
Read about Tlaloc’s journey to Mexico City.
The priceless Codex Fejérváry-Mayer...
... lives in Liverpool
Marigolds - developed by the Aztecs
as sacred herbal medicines
How has today’s Náhuatl changed
from Classical Náhuatl?
The ultimate sound bites
Tec’s latest challenges!
Is this Aztec officer sporting his medals?
No! It’s his ‘bloody’ title
What happened to Aztec/Mexica gods
after the Spanish Conquest? (1)
1st ‘month’ in the Aztec solar calendar
was called the ‘Ceasing of water’
‘The view from the metate’ -
women and the Aztec world
In ancient Mexico the oldest clay stamps
were hand modelled...
See the famous ‘step-fret’ geometric pattern
on a codex page, on a temple wall...
The career of dog breeder must have
been a lucrative one in pre-Hispanic Mexico
The Aztecs wouldn’t ‘rat’ on you
but you could get ‘moused’...!
Hear Professor Davíd Carrasco explain for us
how the Aztecs viewed the Spanish invaders
The Sun Stone: ‘perhaps the most famous sculpture
made in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans...’
A Mexica had to be brave...
... to go to the loo at night!
Basic Aztec facts:
AZTEC WEAPONS
The pioneering work of H B ‘Nick’ Nicholson -
‘grandfather’ of Aztecs studies...
Yes there’s an annual Chilli Fiesta...
... near Chichester!
Popo and Iztac
The classic legend of the two volcanoes
WANTED - ALIVE: a captive warrior
REWARD: a beautiful cape!
After the Conquest the Mexica
called horses ‘super-deer’...
Gain valuable experience
working with Mexicolore in schools
How can we find out
if Aztec herbal medicines still work?
Atrial crosses bear witness
to Mexico’s pre-Hispanic past
Isabel de Moctezuma - trying to reconstruct
the biography of ‘the last Mexica princess’
The famous atlatl dart-thrower
was a truly ancient hunting weapon
A Nahua folk tale to coincide
with the Day of the Dead...
Aztec/Mexica parents taught and
‘grew’ their children a bit like plants...
Are the Virgin of Guadalupe
and Tonanztin the same?
Doña Marina -
a study in survival...
Grasshoppers
had a Jekyll & Hyde nature - so very Aztec!
Each of the twenty calendar day signs
has its own particular qualities
Basic Aztec facts:
AZTEC SCHOOLS
Games and other amusements
of the ancient Mesoamericans...
Spot the Mexican
in the Coat of Arms of Lord Cowdray (of Cowdray Park in Sussex)
A daughter’s love for her mother
expressed in a Náhuatl poem
Get interactive
with our new Sunstone experience!
The Aztec wind god was so aerodynamic
he just blew your mind...
The Aztecs took ‘double-entendre’
to a whole new level of meaning...
Medicinal plants continue to be of great importance
to the present-day Nahua
Every Mexica family owned something ceramic
- what a lotta pottery!
There was a close personal bond
between Aztec captor and captive...
Day of the Dead activities
using teacher-tested ideas...
Doña Marina -
a study in survival - Conclusion
The astonishing Axayacatl
nourished the growing Aztec empire
Flowers played an important role
in individual Mexica lives...
Basic Aztec facts:
AZTEC FOODS
Birds have been important in art, ritual, and folklore
in the Americas for more than three millennia...
Not-to-be-missed Aztec treasures
viewable every day in central London
A rabbit?
In the Moon?
The Natural Look: Beauty Tips
For the Aztec Girl...
The Terrible Tzitizimime
Monsters of the Celestial Vault
Las enfermedades mentales
son enfermedades del corazón
Rulers were said to carry
a heavy LOAD of responsibility...
Leonardo López Luján brings us up-to-date
in the search for Moctezuma’s predecessors
What happened to the Aztec/Mexica gods
after the Spanish Conquest? (2)
The matted, tangled hair of Mexica priests symbolized
the ‘disordered filaments of the underworld’
How to make a wheely
simple Aztec toy...
Rare, stunningly beautiful, elusive, an artist’s dream
- is the quetzal the ultimate symbol of beauty?
Basic Aztec facts:
AZTEC TOOLS
Evidence shows the Aztecs were
very much a ‘mask culture’...
Molluscs were both useful
and symbolic in the Mexica empire
‘When in Rome...’
Download a basic Náhuatl guide
An Aztec riddle...
What wears a tight blouse?
The Aztec goddess of youth beauty and love
- was anything but a soft touch...
The best stone sauce bowls
take generations to ‘season’
Mexica man, Mexica woman -
physical strength, moral force
While the Tudors strummed
the Mexica ‘sang with their feet...’
What happened to the Aztec/Mexica gods
after the Spanish Conquest? (2) - Conclusion
A new series of simple resources
on Aztec every-day life...
Were human sacrifices
performed by 5 priests... or 6?
The Nahuas acted morally
to follow the models of their ancestors...
Basic Aztec facts:
AZTEC GODS
Aztec legacy
in Bournville?
Ancient language, modern soundwaves
- how to pronounce some of the commonest words
Did the Aztecs really know
of their impending doom?
One Alligator’ - a sign of the times...
Read the first in our ‘Birth Sign Bonanza’ series
Watch the beautifully animated story of a bat
- a creature with ancient associations...
Xochiquetzal -
- you should love her to bits!
The reed mat ‘petate’ -
- you could bet your life on it...
The Aztecs sang - literally -
- ‘to their hearts’ content’
Ancient Mexican figures continue
to inspire today’s stone workers
The world’s first botanic gardens
may well have been Aztec...
Off to work at 6...
... years old
What games and sports
did the Mexica (Aztecs) play?
While frogs helped feed the Aztecs,
toads helped feed their religion...
Control of lakes and waterways
was crucial to ensuring Mexica power
The Garden of Eden ...
in south west England
The Redcoats obtained their ‘red’ coats from Mexican
cactus beetles called cochineal - in huge quantities...
Mexican Batman -
- ancient hero or figure of death?
Symbol of a good Aztec citizen?
The upright digging stick
At the BM Community Preview
the gentler side of the Mexica came to the fore...
The awesome Aztec pinauhuiztli beetle
has just been identified as the ‘deer-killer’!
What was your average
AZTEC HOUSE like...?
Without tlachtli, neither Cantona nor Beckham
would have been the ballpayers we know today...
Mexican plants...
... in south west London
Our Lord the Flayed One’ -
- was one of the oldest Aztec gods
An Aztec thief just had to ‘lift the lid’
of the family treasure chest
Teachers are encouraged to say -
From now on they’re the Mexica!
Aztec pillow-fight games: the trick was
to hide the soft bag under your cape...
The Aztec Water-Dog
has been positively identified...!
Listen to short poems in English
with music, inspired by Nahua culture
In pre-Hispanic Mexico, any metal used in jewellery
making had a mystical significance...
Aztec children were brought up
to be exemplary citizens...
What did the Aztecs prize above all else?
We survey our Panel of Experts...
Musical Instruments from all over
in Forest Hill
Tlaloc the rain god was worshipped in Mesoamerica
long before the Aztecs had settled in the central highlands...
The aquatic quadruped that made a real name for itself:
The deadly Ahuizotl...
Getting to the hearth of the matter
- at the very centre of Aztec life
Moctezuma’s in town!
Join us at the BM...
Aztec pipes were called ‘tubes of aromas’
and held like darts thrown in battle!
The Mexica counted in 20s -
- a person was all fingers and thumbs!
Help identify the fakes...
... and the genuine artefacts!
Knots and matchmakers -
clues to ancient Mexican weddings
There’s something about
those goggle eyes...!
Did the ancient Mexicans invent
high-chairs for meal times?
See how twin-templed pyramids evolved
from the simplest of house designs
Mexica turquoise craftsmen had reached
the cutting edge of their art
There are 5 basic ways to design clothes
- and the Mexica wore them all...
What clothes did Aztec
children wear?
IN THE NEWS: in Mexico today
truth itself is a sacrificial victim
For rapid transport around the city
the canoe was king
Huitzilopochtli -
- the one truly Aztec god
Oscar Wilde wrote all about
the ‘fantastic character’ of Aztec instruments
We share in schools the Aztecs’ joy of carrying
the most precious artefact of all - a young baby...
The Aztecs left behind some snazzy designs...
...for rugs: perfect for colouring in!
Each bowl of gold dust tribute had to fill
‘the hollow of both hands placed together’
Tracking the provenance of Mexica-Mixtec
turquoise mosaics at the BM
What makes us angry
about ‘The Angry Aztecs’
The rise of Tenochtitlan in the 14th century
depended on an ecological miracle...
The Full Monte(zuma): London hosts
an international symposium and major exhibition
Big T’s character was as dark...
... as a Smoking Mirror
Maquahuitl
- the Aztecs’ Broadsword
Would your cry of pain have been
ear-piercing, tongue-piercing or nose-piercing?
At the heart of every meal
- a tortilla!
While the Aztecs were squeaky clean
the Spanish must have been eeuugghhh!
Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain:
A Nahua Ritual for Abundant Crops
See and hear an expert musician
raise the tempo on a teponaztli...
Mexican curiosities
... in the Royal Pavilion
The Aztec Uictli
was in some contexts a sacred instrument
Some Aztec hairstyles were definitely
‘a cut above the rest...’
Moctezuma Montezuma
Motecuhzoma...
Become a young ‘codexpert’...
... Learn how to cook the books!
Our Grandmother’ -
and Mother of the Gods
See you later Alligator!
- death was a final homecoming...
Were there rich and poor
in Aztec times?
Were large stone sculptures
the Aztecs’ greatest artistic achievement?
Strictly ‘tzictli’ - sticky chicle!
Nip up a gum tree and discover the original Aztec recipe...
The Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle
was given to The Queen in 1973
Need ideas for teaching ‘Aztec’ dance?
We have a hot tip for you...!
Was every woman’s day in Aztec times
just one long GRIND...?
Some dyed their hair with indigo
- ‘so that their hair shone...’
Mexica weaponry: images are telling
but just how were they used in practice?
A different Aztec Calendar Stone
can be seen in Philadelphia
How to get around
a pre-Hispanic market!
One-room bed-sit...
... Home smoky home!
‘Our father’ -
- the cypress tree...
Mexica philosophy centered on teotl
- sacred energy in motion...
When the Aztecs danced...
...they ‘sang with their feet’
Az Tec will show you...’
Make your own Aztec sacrifice knife!
Have you ever been to Aztec -
- a little town in New Mexico?
The wisdom of Aztec parents
- even the Spanish were deeply impressed...
Drunk as a ...rabbit?
Discover the folly of the 1 Deer birth sign.
¡Viva el Chicozapote!
Up the Chewing Gum Tree!
Aztec Women: Capable Partners
and Cosmic Enemies
Aztec beanz
meanz money!
Compare Aztec advice for pregnant women
with today’s Dos and Don’ts
The story behind Vienna’s
Mesoamerican Featherworks
As well as chewing chicle latex
ancient peoples used it to seal and stick
Chimalli
Aztec shields - status symbols par excellence
For Aztec water-folk
the pelican mirrored their fate...
Barcelona - home to a gem of a museum
of pre-Columbian artefacts
Did the Aztec Tlatoani
possess divine powers?
Teponaztli
The ‘Queen’ of Aztec sacred drums ...
Wonderful... marvellous... superb...
Mmmmmm... vanilla!
What does the Aztec language
(Náhuatl) MEAN?
Paris: home to important collections
of pre-Hispanic Mexican artefacts
How pre-Hispanic masks inspired poetry
by Year 6 children in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Hi-tech science reveals Mexica and Mixtec skill
in using shell to craft exquisite turquoise mosaics
Metate
One of the most ancient of Aztec artefacts
Pre-Hispanic nicknames...
... were often linked to clothing
Smoke signals gave the game away
to something precious underneath...
Get children to reveal something of themselves
through Aztec calendar signs and masks...
ArtiFact or ArtiFake? -
The problem of forgeries in Mesoamerican Art
Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli
- The god with the longest name?
The original ‘runaway’ slave
- the Aztecs gave you a sporting chance...
Aztec music -
- will we ever know what it sounded like?
Sun moon
Venus -
Happy-go-lucky?
You were probably born on 1-Flower!
Pulque gods’ gold ornament
- a real one has been found!
Beetlemania...
... seriously bad news!
A nose plug
fit for a water goddess
U-tube - a great source of music...
...for over 800 years!
John Bierhorst helps explain
‘how Aztec poetry works...’
Did the modern piñata...
... evolve from Aztec rain-god pots?
Plagued by ants, mice, frogs?
To the Aztecs they were omens as well as pests...
An obsidian ‘microphone’
- basic kit for Aztec DJs!
A modern-day ‘tlacuilo’
has a sad tale to tell...
Better than an alarm clock
The timeless sound of tortilla-making
I can’t ‘handle’ life on my own...
... I just need to get a grip!
If you’ve got designs...
... on my shields
Did these figures represent
multi-ethnic ancient Mexico?
How did Mesoamericans
envision the cosmos?
For the Aztecs if you’d ‘made it’ in life...
... you were compared to a ripe ear of corn
A portrait of a Mexican museum collection
- frozen in time
Did the ancient Mexicans
play marbles, or jacks?
Pioneers of Chocolate
Aztecs thought it was blood of the gods.
No time for leisure?
Ancient Mexican life had a real swing to it...
New guidelines: preparing and
following up on a team visit to your school
Moctezuma II washed twice a DAY -
Louis XIV of France only washed twice in his LIFE!
Strictly they didn’t float...
... and they were rich enough to feed thousands of Aztecs
The Aztecs cried their hearts out...
... they made a strong case ‘for crying out loud’
Cenotes were places of symbolic meaning
as well as important sources of clean water...
How come a heron...
... was a special symbol for the Aztecs?
Dust to dust...
... for the Aztecs it was water to water
See again the opening video
from the Royal Academy ‘Aztecs’ exhibition
Mexicolore has won the 2012 LUKAS award
‘Cultural/Educational Resource of the Year’!
Awaiting you in the sauna -
- goddess of the ‘steamy’ side of life...
1 petate .. 2 petate .. 3 petate
The Aztecs slept fitfully...
And now for something completely different -
- a ‘spot the mistakes’ Aztec teaser
The art of spear throwing was already ancient
by the time the Aztecs came along
We now run a range of craft workshops
on Mexican themes in schools
The wheel -
Did the Aztecs just ‘toy’ with the idea?
In wheel life...
... feet handle rough terrain far better
Listening to the Aztecs at home
would have surprised anyone expecting talk of blood
Dark materials indeed
Where did Phillip Pullman get his ‘daemon’ idea from?
3 score and 10...
...Yippee!!!
A real ‘hands-on’ approach
to the Aztec Calendar
Should we call the Aztecs ‘Aztecs’ -
- or the ‘Mexica’
The Aztec recipe for hiccups...
... was used in Europe for 200 years
Getting drunk on Pulque
One of the benefits of the agave!
Just what do we mean
by ‘Human Sacrifice’?
Ultrarunning
Fresh fish from the coast daily ... on foot!
Do not pass Go
Patolli was an Aztec board game.
Hare today
Gone tomorrow...?
Guide dogs -
- for all?
The largest prehistoric earthwork
in the Western Hemisphere
Because of its lunar connections...
... the rabbit was an important day and year-bearer sign
Thanks to Aztec ‘Eagle Man’
the ‘Kids in Museums’ movement is born
Aztec chocolate was a drink for the privileged -
never eaten as it is today
Take the Aztec time challenge
and connect artefacts at ground level to the planets above!
Learn from two young locals
how to say Hello in Náhuatl
Aztec poets
performed ‘flower-songs’
The ultimate in headwear...
... but isn’t the original in the wrong place?
Got questions for an expert?
Why not Skype us...?
Superfood
Did the Aztecs eat nutritious green goo?
Aztec children could get jobs
- as super glue makers!
Playing ‘ullamaliztli’...
... required an awful lot of balls!
Aztecs’ understandings of their bodies and their destinies in life
began with pregnancy and birth.
The Aztecs gave themselves...
... a healthy thwacking!
Náhuatl words and phrases shaped the way the Aztecs
thought about the body and the world
Aztec life check
Do you give as much as you receive?
Listen to the sound
of a large horned toad-shaped ocarina
Aztec laments went far beyond
the simple act of grieving over loss
Download a Powerpoint presentation
from us after a team visit!
We all mellow to yellow...
... with age
The companionship of the
long-distance runner...
The Aztecs were nothing if not
‘proverbial’ speakers...
Interview us!
Get your pupils to prepare an article about Mexicolore
Funeral fanfare -
- or wake-up call?
The ‘Arty Aztecs’...
... are based in Guildford!
While the Tudors strummed...
... the Aztecs beat
Share a giggle
with the Aztecs
New for Autumn Term 2012:
a Chocolate Artefacts pack...
Study the carvings
on a famous Aztec war drum
Blasts from the past -
conch shells!
Armoured bears? The Conquistadors
attacked with armoured dogs...
Eating the soul: who’s ‘guilty’
of cannibalism?
An unusual ancient Mexican instrument
that imitates the roar of the wind...
An appeal to the President of Mexico
to rescue the country’s ancient musical heritage...
We recommend good sources
for studying the music of the Aztecs/Mexica
Just how should we look
at the Aztec Sunstone?
Tlaltecuhtli
Aztec Earth Deity surfaces -
We recently visited our
1,000th new school...!
Ethelburga Primary
School visit led to 25 years on the road
Schools beware! Some Sunstone copies
are VERY cheap-and-nasty!
A calendar that can
drive a scribe dotty...
Recovering a massive Aztec stone cactus
from under a bookshop proved a thorny task
Just what IS the meaning of
December 21st. 2012?
Still 3 years to go...
...and the jokes have begun
What’s engraved on the SIDE
of the Aztec Calendar Stone?
Spot the Sunstone mistake at London’s
Mestizo restaurant and win a prize!
The Aztecs -
- you either love them or you hate them!
Guess which Aztec god today
is the most searched-for...
How Aztec...
... is the Day of the Dead?
Is there any connection between the Aztecs
and the famous crystal skull in the British Museum?
There’s ‘precious’ little Aztec turquoise left in the world -
- but it’s enough to inspire and fill a wonderful new book
Were the Olmecs writing
2500 years before the Conquest?
An afterlife for dogs
was not limited to ancient Peru
Aztec objects are at ‘The Heart’
of the Wellcome Collection’s latest exhibition
Pole-climbing -
- a universal custom?
The sacred precinct - attacked by Spanish guns
... and by 20th century Chevrolets!
Xochipilli -
- the only Aztec god you can bank on?
Hidden on Mexico’s $100 peso note
is a tiny pre-Hispanic poem!
Did D H Lawrence manage to get under the skin
of the Plumed Serpent?
The ancient footprints debate
runs on and on...
The roots of dentistry in Mexico are ancient -
- and the Aztecs used ‘tooth place’ everywhere!
Praise from the National Grid
NGfL say this site is a valuable set of resources.
A god under every stone...’
... their hearts still beat underground
Faces of Mexico...
... to inspire your art projects
How Mesoamerica inspired...
... one of the 20th. century’s greatest sculptors
Pre-Hispanic symbols in
Frida Kahlo’s ‘lost’ painting
State-of-the-art science at the British Museum -
- sheds new light on just how superb Aztec mosaic workers were
Aztec rugby ball...?!
... No! It’s part of Tezcatlipoca’s ‘ezpitzal’
Let’s talk Tezcatlipoca...
A major international conference in London
Future collaboration with the Templo Mayor
Learning from experts in the heart of Tenochtitlan...
Anyone come across a school book on the Aztecs
in English older than 1965?!
Bristol offers rich educational links
to the New World
The Mexico team in the World Cup
have for years sported THE Aztec icon
Were all Aztecs at heart born
‘bloody-minded’?
Was ‘The Last Aztec’
Moctezuma or D B C Pierre?!
Snow has hit the Tarahumara
very severely this winter
Drumming on about the Aztecs...
... Aztec music is coming alive in England!
Mexico: at the heart of
‘the world’s largest interactive classroom project’
Háblame! -
Speak to me!
Drawing on...
... Aztec art