Did Sir Hans Sloane introduce chocolate to Britain?
Village dogs were companions to the Aztecs
Guess what English children think a Mexica chocolate whisk is...!
Hear the old- fashioned sound of tortilla making
The Aztecs have been called by many names
For ancient Mexicans the cosmos was woven and netted
The Aztecs were skilled users of shell in making mosaics
The importance of masks in Aztec culture...
The Codex Cospi was once thought to be Chinese!
Visit the only royal chocolate kitchen in Britain
Aztec parents were loving but super strict...
Did the Aztecs have a copper industry?
On foot or by canoe the Aztecs were great travellers...
Cacao use among the Pre-Hispanic Maya
How Maya and Aztecs earthquake-proofed their buildings
A Mexican codex in Oxford was thought to be Egyptian!
The Aztecs cleaned their teeth with charcoal...
Molluscs were both useful and symbolic in the Mexica empire
How spies brought chocolate secrets to England...
God of the month Quetzalcoatl
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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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