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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 teams (now two!) have made over 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 some 180,000 children have already participated, this constantly updated, 100% educational website, based in London, offers a wealth of carefully researched information and resources on Aztec/Mexica culture, all designed to inspire, inform, intrigue and encourage serious students of the Aztecs (and ancient Mesoamerica in general) of ALL ages. Note: we receive no funding of any kind, you won’t find us on Facebook or Twitter, and we accept no adverts. We’re proud of our independence!

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

Did the Aztecs force you

to be who you were?

WANTED - ALIVE: a captive warrior

REWARD: a beautiful cape!

As well as chewing chicle latex

ancient peoples used it to seal and stick

Aztec place names give us insight

into the Mexica people and their lives...

For the Mexica, heavens and ring

of celestial water meet on the horizon

IN THE NEWS: in Mexico today

truth itself is a sacrificial victim

The Sun Stone: ‘perhaps the most famous sculpture

made in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans...’

Mexicolore wins a LUKAS award for

‘Cultural/Educational Resource of the Year’

What exactly was the

Aztec ‘calpulli’?

New guidelines: preparing and

following up on a team visit to your school

Tec ANIMATES A PAGE

from the Codex Mendoza!

While frogs helped feed the Aztecs,

toads helped feed their religion...

The rise of Tenochtitlan in the 14th century

depended on an ecological miracle...

Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain:

A Nahua Ritual for Abundant Crops

What was your average

AZTEC HOUSE like...?

Were large stone sculptures

the Aztecs’ greatest artistic achievement?