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Find the place name glyph for Aztec/Mexica tributary towns...

Today's Mayan date is: 12.19.17.3.3 - two years and 286 days to go to the end of the cycle!

Why did the Aztecs only use wheels for toys and not for transport? asked Kettlefields CP School. Read what Dr. John F. Schwaller had to say.

Welcome to the Aztecs at Mexicolore!

Mexicolore is a small independent artefact-based teaching team providing in-school workshops and teaching resources on Mexico and the Aztecs/Mexica. Since 1980 our team have made 2,000 visits to schools and museums throughout England. Learn more by clicking on ‘Teachers’ Page’...

“Mexicolore is the only organisation in the United Kingdom that for the last 30 years has been devoted to promoting Mexico’s Aztec heritage, presenting it in a unique and extraordinary way.” (Minister Ignacio Durán, Cultural Attaché, Mexican Embassy, UK)

“Los felicito por la excelente labor educativa que hacen en escuelas, museos y el internet. ¡Su página es, simplemente, la mejor que yo conozca!” (Dr. Leonardo López Luján, Director, Proyecto Templo Mayor, Mexico City)

In support of our team workshops on Mexico and the Aztecs in which over 150,000 children have already participated, this constantly updated, 100% educational website, based in London, offers a wealth of carefully researched information and resources on Aztec culture, all designed to inspire, inform, intrigue and encourage serious students of the Aztecs (and ancient Mesoamerica in general) of ALL ages.

To read and share our vision, click on ‘Getting Involved’, in the left hand menu.

Cenotes were places of symbolic meaning

as well as important sources of clean water...

Spot the Sunstone mistake at London’s

Mestizo restaurant and win a prize!

What happened to Aztec/Mexica gods

after the Spanish Conquest? (1)

A mysterious turquoise skull mask

featured at Expo 67 in Montreal...

After the Conquest the Mexica

called horses ‘super-deer’...

There are 5 basic ways to design clothes

- and the Mexica wore them all...

Isabel de Moctezuma - trying to reconstruct

the biography of ‘the last Mexica princess’

The mysterious rectangular motif

under the neck on Mexica women’s blouses

Hidden on Mexico’s $100 peso note

is a tiny pre-Hispanic poem!

Leonardo López Luján brings us up-to-date

in the search for Moctezuma’s predecessors

East west...

Home’s best!

Still 3 years to go...

...and the jokes have begun

Every Mexica family owned something ceramic

- what a lotta pottery!

Aztec pipes were called ‘tubes of aromas’

and held like darts thrown in battle!

While the Tudors strummed

the Mexica ‘sang with their feet...’