The Azcatitlan Codex is back in Mexico after 186 years, on loan from France for a National Museum of Anthropology exhibit through Dec. 6.

The artifact, among the most prized visual accounts of Aztec history, will be on display in Mexico City for three months ...

For years, Mexico has demanded the return of a treasured manuscript. Now the Aztec relic is back home from France — but on loan. The Azcatitlan Codex, a rare and prized manuscript that recounts the ...

Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has secured the colorful San Andrés Tetepilco codices. These Aztec documents from the late 16th and early 17th centuries recount the ...

This Aztec pictogram depicts warriors drowning as a temple burns in the background. New research links the scene to a 1507 earthquake. Courtesy of Gerardo Suárez and Virginia García-Acosta A ...

Five-hundred years after the fall of Tenochtitlan, Aztec culture endures, thanks to its descendants, protectors, and centuries-old documents that are moving the Aztec language and lore into the age of ...

What was early Aztec life like? The Florentine Codex gives viewers an inside look at Mexico’s early pre-Hispanic indigenous culture. A 16th-century manuscript is getting a modern-day update and will ...

A cherished 16th-century Mexican manuscript that tells the history of the Aztecs in pictograms went on display Thursday in Mexico City, nearly two centuries after it was whisked off to France.