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Follow the route followed by Cortés (in Spanish)...

Today's Mayan date is: 12.19.17.1.13 - two years and 316 days to go to the end of the cycle!

Is Náhuatl taught in Mexican schools today? asked Farlington Prep 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 25 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.

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...’

See again the opening video

from the Royal Academy ‘Aztecs’ exhibition

Ancient Mexican figures continue

to inspire today’s stone workers

At the BM Community Preview

the gentler side of the Mexica came to the fore...

Mexica turquoise craftsmen had reached

the cutting edge of their art

Teachers are encouraged to say -

From now on they’re the Mexica!

Rulers were said to carry

a heavy LOAD of responsibility...