Forerunners of recorded music from ancient Mexico?
Guess what English children think a Mexica chocolate whisk is...!
An Aztec stone jaguar head lurks in Mexico City
The Aztecs had to be indoors every day by 6 pm!
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How spies brought chocolate secrets to England...
We review a manual of ancient Mexican wisdom...
Is the chacmool anything to do with the ballgame?
Aztec artists were considered as razor sharp
Europe is home to artefacts with a mistaken identity...
Aztec parents were loving but super strict...
Many plants and animals had more than one meaning...
In poetry weeping and singing both generated noise...
Don’t drink before your older sibling!
Scientists try to reconstruct an ancient codex
Get your kids to dye cochineal!
Hear the old- fashioned sound of tortilla making
Just how were Aztec weapons used in practice?
The pre-Columbian ballgame survives today in Sinaloa...
How to tell an artefact from an artiFAKE
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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)
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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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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
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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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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
Family MileSTONES
Henry Moore
Frida Kahlo’s The Wounded Table
Frida Kahlo
Masters of mosaic
Mexican Stamps
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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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