The Aztec Empire flourished in the Valley of Mexico ... In Aztec culture, he gave several gifts to humankind — including books (codices), the calendar and maize (corn) — and, in some ...

What it is: A turquoise-encrusted wooden mask from the Aztec civilization Where it is from: Somewhere in Mesoamerica When it was made: Between 1400 and 1521 Related: Book of Kells: A 1,200-year ...

In Spanish, the book is called “Tu sueño imperios han ... one of which — the Aztec empire — has often been shoddily reproduced, its complexity buffed away. This complexity stands between ...

The story of the fall of the Aztec empire is a compelling human drama that has all to often been oversimplified into a story of perceived technological or cultural advantage. For centuries ...

Mexico was then incorporated into the Spanish Empire – and Christianity was brutally enforced. Virtually all remaining Aztec books, especially religious ones, were publicly burned – and people ...

PHOTOGRAPH BY ALAMY/ACI Ahuitzotl, probably the greatest of all the Aztec rulers, came to power next. He expanded the empire’s borders as far as present-day Guatemala, coming into contact with ...

BRIGGS: While the Aztec are building an empire, Spain is trying to do the ... when you think that they destroyed all these books, it just hurts. BRIGGS: But amazingly, some codices are still ...

The story of how Hernán Cortés and a few hundred Spaniards conquered the mighty Aztec Empire, in the heart of what's now modern Mexico City, has become a foundational myth of European dominance ...

Related: Book of Kells: A 1,200-year-old manuscript ... the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés likely took from the Aztec Empire as treasure in the early 16th century. The mask was carved ...