The Getty unveiled this past week the final product of an eight-year effort to digitize a massive, centuries-old encyclopedia of central Mexican indigenous culture. That process has already started ...

Disguised Mexica merchants in Tzinacantlan acquiring quetzal feathers in Book 9. (all images courtesy of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, and by permission of MiBACT) After centuries of ...

A detail from Book 9 of the Florentine Codex shows a feather worker preparing tropical bird feathers for a feather mosaic. The 16th century codex was created, in part, during a pandemic. (Biblioteca ...

Correction: The original version of this article incorrectly stated that the Florentine Codex is translated into Nahuatl, Spanish and English. In fact, digital version of the codex contains English ...

One of the most understated treasures in the current exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art, The Red That Colored the World, is the Florentine Codex. The book is opened to the pages that ...

Watch Lu Coy's performance here. To celebrate the launch of the Digital Florentine Codex, join us for an outdoor concert debuting an original score by musician Lu Coy (they/them). Known for their ...

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, ...

Introduction: Civilizations in Conflict -- A Long Tradition: The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica -- Tenochtitlan: The Foundation of Heaven -- Mexica Civilization and Society -- Renaissance ...