Aztec women painted their faces a beautiful yellow
What if the Aztecs had defeated the Spanish?
Did the ancient Maya invent the first comics?
Many plants and animals had more than one meaning...
The pre-Columbian ballgame survives today in Sinaloa...
Did Aztec rulers possess divine powers?
Aztec gods climbed down a ladder to get to earth
There are 6 surviving pre-Hispanic Mixtec codices
The Aztecs were skilled users of shell in making mosaics
The story of the woman who interpreted for Cortes
The 20 day signs formed a precious necklace...
Teaching resource - a Maya farmer’s house
Personified knives dressed as Mexica gods
To be moral was to follow the example of your ancestors
Control of lake navigation was crucial to the Aztecs
Mexica women basically kept the whole empire going
The rare remains of an Aztec waistcoat
The ancient Voladores ceremony is still performed today
What do the elements in the 20 Aztec day signs represent?
Rituals in caves invoked the power of earth and underworld
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Dr. John F. Schwaller

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Marriage Alliances in Mesoamerica Click the flag for a Spanish translation
‘Nearly everything you were taught about Aztec “sacrifice” is wrong’
The Aztecs and Cannibalism
Sacrifice in the pre-Hispanic Mixtec codices Click the flag for a Spanish translation
‘Azteken’ exhibition, Stuttgart
La Llorona (1)
La Llorona (2)
History of British and Mexican querns
Stages of childhood in Mesoamerica
The ocarina in Mesoamerica
The Concept of the Wheel in Ancient Mesoamerica Click the flag for a Spanish translation
The Mexica approach to alcohol
Mexica (Aztec) Human Sacrifice: New Perspectives Click the flag for a Spanish translation
IN THE NEWS: avocados
Households and Daily Life in Mesoamerica
The Voladores ceremony
Birth and death as metaphors (1)
Birth and death as metaphors (2)
Chanting in Mesoamerica Click the flag for a Spanish translation
Witchcraft and Sorcery in Ancient Mexico
Colour and Culture Among the Aztecs (1)
Colour and Culture Among the Aztecs (2)
The Aztecs, patolli and gambling
Feathers from which birds went to make Aztec & Maya headdresses?
Aztec running
The art of Aztec mourning
What lies underneath Aztec sculpture?
Caves as Sacred Space in Ancient Mesoamerica
Mesoamerican Copper
Lightning in Mesoamerica
Dr. H.B. Nicholson - ‘Grandfather’ of Aztecs Studies
Games and Other Amusements of the Ancient Mesoamericans
Especial Birds in the Americas
Aztec Masks
Nahua Moral Philosophy
The Aztecs and Lake Navigation Click the flag for a Spanish translation
The Ancient Secret of Pre-Hispanic Jewellery Click the flag for a Spanish translation
‘What was the Aztecs’ most prized possession?’
IN THE NEWS: femicide in Mexico (1)
IN THE NEWS: femicide in Mexico (2)
IN THE NEWS: (ritual) decapitation
Water in the Valley of Mexico
A modern Nahua pilgrimage
The Deep Roots of Aztec Sculpture
Mexica Weaponry Click the flag for a Spanish translation
Aztec Philosophy
Aztec Women
Vienna’s Mesoamerican Featherworks
Did Aztec rulers possess divine powers?
The skilled use of conch shell in mosaics
Mexico’s Faked Prehistory
Found! The pulque gods’ ‘golden section’...
How Aztec poetry works
How did Mesoamericans envision the cosmos?
Portrait of a Collection: National Museum of Mexico, 1865
Clean Aztecs, Dirty Spaniards
Templo Mayor animation
The Aztecs and the atlatl
Aztec Manners
The Aztecs have been called many things... Click the flag for a Spanish translation
“There is no such thing as ‘Human Sacrifice’” Click the flag for a Spanish translation
Hare vs Rabbit in mythology Click the flag for a Spanish translation
The Skywatchers of Cahokia
How ‘Eagle Man’ has changed Britain’s museums
Aztec Poetry (1): Intro Click the flag for a Spanish translation
Aztec Poetry (2): Three Poems
Reconstructing Aztec Super Glues
Aztec Concepts of the Human Body (1)
Aztec Concepts of the Human Body (2)
Aztecs and the power of lament
Mexico’s long-distance running tradition
IN THE NEWS (again): vicious dogs
Cannibalism and corpse medicine (1)
Cannibalism and corpse medicine (2)
IN THE NEWS: latest excavations...
IN THE NEWS: how the cactus stone was unearthed
Quotes on the Aztecs
More quotes on the Aztecs
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Day of the Dead (1)
Day of the Dead (2)
‘Aztec’ crystal skulls
Turquoise Mosaics book launched
IN THE NEWS: earliest writing
IN THE NEWS: ancient dogs
‘The Heart’ exhibition
IN THE NEWS: pole climbing
A very modern assault on the Aztecs...
Mexican Bank Notes
Netzahualcóyotl’s hidden poem
IN THE NEWS: ancient footprints
IN THE NEWS: ‘Tooth place’
The British Library have selected our site
Colossal serpent
Mexican Masks
Family MileSTONES
Henry Moore
Frida Kahlo’s The Wounded Table
Frida Kahlo
Masters of mosaic
Mexican Stamps
Tezcatlipoca - a new clue is revealed... Click the flag for a Spanish translation
Tezcatlipoca Symposium Click the flag for a Spanish translation
Templo Mayor Education Service
BBC Aztecs Series
Oldest school book on the Aztecs?
Bristol and the New World
Ballgames and logos
IN THE NEWS: ‘The Last Aztec’
‘Snow joke...

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Mexicolore in the TES
Aztec Music Lecture
‘What the Aztecs did...’
IN THE NEWS: Enciclomedia
‘Háblame’ - ‘Speak to me’
Drawing on Aztec art
‘Whale I never...’
Phil painting Aztec art

Drawing on Aztec art

Our youngest son Phillip is proving to be a talented artist. Having been commissioned to produce illustrations to accompany several of the articles featured on these pages, Phil has offered the originals for sale: send in your offers...

‘Chac mool’ 2006
‘Chac mool’ 2006 (Click on image to enlarge)

And more will no doubt be on their way...!

‘Incense pot’ 2006
‘Incense pot’ 2006 (Click on image to enlarge)

The originals vary between A4 and A3 in size, and are unmounted.

‘Aztec heart’ 2006
‘Aztec heart’ 2006 (Click on image to enlarge)

It was Phil, who, aged 15 back in 2003, played out the great Aztecs exhibition at the Royal Academy in London on the closing night on one of our large Aztec huehuetl drums!

‘Aztec mother and child’ 2006
‘Aztec mother and child’ 2006 (Click on image to enlarge)
‘Aztec mask’ 2006
‘Aztec mask’ 2006 (Click on image to enlarge)
‘Plumed serpent’ 2006
‘Plumed serpent’ 2006 (Click on image to enlarge)
‘Xochipilli’ 2006
‘Xochipilli’ 2006 (Click on image to enlarge)
Phil at the Royal Academy
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