An Aztec manuscript from the 16th century that depicts the first written evidence of earthquakes in the Americas has been discovered in Mexico. The manuscript highlights 12 earthquakes in Codex ...
For decades, researchers have been trying in vain to decipher ancient texts written on the Voynich manuscript - yet they may have been looking for inspiration in the wrong place. A U.S. botanist ...
Detail of the Codex Mendoza from its new digital platform (all screenshots by the author for Hyperallergic) One of the major textual resources on pre-Columbian Mexico is now online in a digital ...
Pictogram representing an earthquake that took place in 1507 somewhere in Mexico. According to a pair of researchers who have systematically studied Mexico's historical earthquakes, a 500-year-old ...
You can see for yourself at the exhibition of a painstakingly accurate replica of the Codex Borgia, one of the few surviving books of the Aztecs, at the Visual Arts Center of the University of Texas ...