In pre-Colonial times, the Aztecs needed nearly 26,400 feathers to elaborate a single Chimalli shield. The fact was revealed by researchers Laura Filloy and María Olvido during the conference ...

‘The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire,’ Getty Villa, 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, (310) 440-7300, through July 5. Admission: Free, tickets required. Parking: $15.

AZTEC LIFE ILLUSTRATED; Significance of the Exhibit of Ancient Mexican Art. MYSTERY OF THE CODICES As Represented in American Museum, Scholars May Decipher Them -- Forbidding Sacrificial Stones.

A museum exhibit displaying Aztec ritual offerings dug up from underneath downtown Mexico City opened on Friday in a first-ever showcase that offers new insight into pre-Hispanic art and religious ...

When Cortés and his conquistadors overran the Aztec empire in 1520, they found “a society unlike any they had encountered hitherto,” said Emily Sharpe in The Art Newspaper. The natives of the ...

The Tellez family is a group of traditional Aztec dancers based in LA, and they perform in the plaza at Olvera Street every Sunday afternoon. An hour before each show, in a busy parking lot, they help ...

The Tellez family is a group of traditional Aztec dancers based in LA, and they perform in the plaza at Olvera Street every Sunday afternoon. An hour before each show, in a busy parking lot, they help ...