In this beautifully crafted biography, Grindle sheds light on the work of Zelia Nuttall, a pioneering anthropologist whose ...

They preferred woollen fabrics until the discovery of the Americas, from which cotton was sourced from regions like Mexico and the Aztec Empire ...

In Mexico City's bustling historic center, the Hospital de Jesus covers most of a city block. Its faded unassuming yellow facade, characteristic of the middle of the last century, obscures the medical ...

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is one of several turquoise objects that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés likely took from the Aztec Empire as treasure in the early 16th century. The mask was carved out of Spanish cedar ...

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As one of the largest paintings in a succession of 27 works all titled “L’empire des lumières” (“The Empire of Light”), the 1954 canvas is well known among 20th century art experts for ...

Jake, Grandpa and Fu Dog go on a mission to go find Fu Dog's friend to enter her in the beauty contest, so the other contestants don't win and Pandaras doesn't complete his evil plan. In the ...

Archaeologists have discovered numerous ceramic or clay whistles at Aztec sites, dubbed "death whistles" because of their distinctive skull shapes. A new paper published in the journal ...

Aztec “skull whistles” found in ancient gravesites were designed to produce shrieking sounds and instil “otherworldly” fear even in modern people, scientists say. Archaeologists have ...

There's something you should know about oligarchs. "They really don't want to be called oligarchs," explains Jeffrey Winters, a professor of political science at Chicago's Northwestern University.