Los Angeles Times

Art review: ‘The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire’ @ Getty Villa

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. ‘The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire’ is a show of modest size but ...
Hyperallergic

A Serpentine Example of Aztec Body Modification Slithers into The Met

The Aztec rulers often expressed their power with body modification, such as labrets pierced through the lower lip. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently acquired a spectacular example of this ...
Time

We Learned About the Aztecs From Their Conquerors—But New Research Is Letting Them Speak for Themselves

A stone Aztec calendar of the sun, on display at a museum circa 1930 A stone Aztec calendar of the sun, on display at a museum circa 1930Ewing Galloway—Getty Images With the U.S.-Mexico border a focal ...
Artnet

A 500-Year-Old Aztec Tower of Human Skulls Is Even More Terrifyingly Humongous Than Previously Thought, Archaeologists Find

Spanish conquistadors destroyed the Huei Tzompantli tower, but archaeologist are unearthing its ruins. Archaeologists have unearthed a new section of the Huey Tzompantli, a “tower of skulls” in what ...
insider.si.edu

The Oxford handbook of the Aztecs edited by Deborah L. Nichols and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría

Introduction: Aztec studies: trends and themes / Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría, Deborah L. Nichols -- Archaeology of the Aztecs. Ancient stone sculptures: in search of the Mexica past / Eduardo Matos ...