The story of the woman who interpreted for Cortes
The ancient Voladores ceremony is still performed today
A Mexican codex in Oxford was thought to be Egyptian!
Aztec parents were loving but super strict...
Just how advanced were the Maya?
What lies underneath Aztec sculpture?
Why would a Catholic priest build an Aztec pyramid?
The ancient Maya walked and even danced on stilts
Virgin of Guadalupe and Tonantzin - are they the same?
Trainee runners had to shin up the 113 steps of the Templo Mayor
The importance of masks in Aztec culture...
Home talk among the Aztecs revolved around anything but blood...
Aztec noble versus commoner
How did Aztecs become Christians after the Conquest?
Aztec rain gold was in fact a rare meteorite...
Aztec furniture was pretty minimalist...
What do the elements in the 20 Aztec day signs represent?
Gum was used to chew and to seal and stick things
The lowly food source that helped the Aztecs grow into an empire...
Aztec songs about Tenochtitlan are full of symbolic metaphors
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History of British and Mexican querns NEW
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
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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?’
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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
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Cannibalism and corpse medicine (1)
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IN THE NEWS: how the cactus stone was unearthed
Quotes on the Aztecs
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Day of the Dead (1)
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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
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Colossal serpent
Mexican Masks
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Henry Moore
Frida Kahlo’s The Wounded Table
Frida Kahlo
Masters of mosaic
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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
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IN THE NEWS: ‘The Last Aztec’
‘Snow joke...

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Snow in the Sierra Tarhumara

‘Snow joke...

This winter (2006-07) has been a disaster for parts of northern Mexico, with the worst series of snowstorms ever recorded in the Sierra Tarahumara, which the Mexican Government has declared a Disaster Zone. (Written/compiled by Ian Mursell/Mexicolore)

A severe snowstorm recorded in the year 7-Reed (1447), Codex Telleriano-Remensis
A severe snowstorm recorded in the year 7-Reed (1447), Codex Telleriano-Remensis (Click on image to enlarge)

We have received this appeal for help, to all who have visited the Copper Canyon, from Richard Fisher, Director of the US-based charity Tarahumara Famine Relief. Follow the (second) link below for more information...

‘Did the Aztecs have a god of snow?’
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