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 Aztec world didn’t disappear into legend. It left records on screenfold books made from bark paper and animal hide. Reading them today matters because they are the Aztecs’ own self-portrait, ...

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With his new novel “The Smoking Mirror,” South Texas author David Bowles is helping to fill what amounts to an ethnic gap in mythology-oriented adventure literature for middle grade readers by ...

Norman University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. Pp. xvi, 218. Illus., maps, stemma, notes, biblio., index. $29.95. ISBN: 0806154349 Schroeder draws upon several histories written in the aftermath of the ...