known as the Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco, from a private family that had passed down the Aztec documents for generations, ...

In the Aztec writing system, 10-Rabbit is 1502—the year, according to the codices surviving from the era, that the empire's most feared ruler, Ahuitzotl (pronounced ah-WEE-tzohtl), was laid to ...

Much of what is known today of pre- and immediate-post-colonial Mesoamerican civilizations comes from extant written records, known as codices. The Aztec and Mayan codices were screenfold ...