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Today's Mayan date is: 12.19.17.12.7 - two years and 102 days to go to the end of the cycle!
Who was the first archaeologist to find out about the Aztecs? asked Little Ealing Primary School. Read what Dr. Alfredo López Austin had to say.
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We’re back!The team are back from an excellent research trip to Mexico. PLENTY of new resources/plans on their way...! |
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 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.
One Spanish chronicler claimed the Aztecs had
2,000 gods! We name the key ones...
While the Aztecs were squeaky clean
the Spanish must have been eeuugghhh!
The matted, tangled hair of Mexica priests symbolized
the ‘disordered filaments of the underworld’
Were human sacrifices
performed by 5 priests... or 6?
How did Mesoamericans
envision the cosmos?
How did Moctezuma die?
How did he WANT to die?
For the Aztecs the eagle hunts like a sunbeam,
and leads the sun across the sky...
Listen to short poems in English
with music, inspired by Nahua culture
A portrait of a Mexican museum collection
- frozen in time
A new series of simple resources
on Aztec every-day life...
The V&A Museum has, stored away, a mysterious
‘monster’ metate which we’ve been allowed to see
The Redcoats obtained their ‘red’ coats from Mexican
cactus beetles called cochineal - in huge quantities...
Get children to reveal something of themselves
through Aztec calendar signs and masks...
In ancient Mexico the oldest clay stamps
were hand modelled...
Moctezuma II washed twice a DAY -
Louis XIV of France only washed twice in his LIFE!
Náhuatl has always been a language
rich in colour...