There are 6 surviving pre-Hispanic Mixtec codices
The encounter of Spanish and Nahuatl languages
Browse through photos snapped in recent schools...
Evidence for cacao drinks go back to 1600 BCE!
Colours had several layers of meaning in ancient Mexico...
Nahuatl surnames that still exist from Aztec times
Pilgrimages to sacred locations - a tradition both ancient and modern
The rare remains of an Aztec waistcoat
Memory cannot be burned...
What lies underneath Aztec sculpture?
The Aztec language has traded with Spanish a whole host of words
In the 19th century making fake pieces was hugely popular...
Is this an early Mesoamerican unicycle?
Synchronized blood-letting
How Moctezuma died - what WAS or what SHOULD HAVE BEEN?
Is the chacmool anything to do with the ballgame?
We compare Maya and Aztec creation myths
The lowly food source that helped the Aztecs grow into an empire...
Europe is home to artefacts with a mistaken identity...
The Aztecs cleaned their teeth with charcoal...
General Aztecs Maya Tocuaro Kids Contact 18 Jun 2019/8 Dog
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Mexicolore team 1 setting up in a school for an Aztecs workshop

Time-lapse Video

Please take a minute to watch this nifty little minute-long time-lapse video, filmed in the spring of 2013 while our main Aztecs team set up and started a workshop in a school in Hertfordshire...

Mexicolore at St Columba’s College, May 2013

Produced by Phil Mursell, the video was shot at St. Columba’s College Junior School, St. Albans, Herts., on May 24th 2013. Our thanks to the school for inviting us. Special thanks are due too to Michael Heralda, who wrote and recorded the music - go to his site (link below) for more information on his work on the Mexica in the USA...

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