The Aztecs' hieroglyphs were among the most sophisticated writing systems which humanity has produced, an expert has claimed. Little was previously known about the ancient pre-Colombian civilisation's ...

Aztec writing sometimes used different colours to refine a word's meaning: This page is from an early 16th century book about Aztec imperial taxation, the Matricula de Tributos, now in the National ...

The Library of Congress has made the extraordinarily rare Code x Quetzalecatzin available online. Also known as the Aztec Codex, it was created sometime between 1570 and 1595 and shows native Aztec ...

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