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, ...

Page from the Aztec codex Matrícula de Tributos(History and Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo) Before the Spanish arrived in 1519, the highest officials of the Aztec Empire could count on the provinces ...

Members of the Nahñu people engaged in the struggle against appropriation of their culture, in Ixmiquilpan, Mexico, December 7, 2024. MAHE ELIPE FOR M LE MONDE'S MAGAZINE On December 7, in the central ...