Product Description: ¿Cómo surgió Teotihuacan? ¿Cuáles fueron los factores que determinaron su colapso? Durante siete siglos, Teotihuacan, la primera gran ciudad del centro de México, fue la urbe con mayor número de habitantes, justo en una extensión de 22 kilómetros cuadrados...read more

Product Description: This biography of Mexico's award-winning archaeologist, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, is based on a series of interviews conducted by Davíd Carrasco and Leonardo L?pez Luj?n, respected Mesoamericanists in their own right. Born in 1940 Mexico City, Matos Moctezuma's father was a diplomat from the Dominican Republic and his mother was a Mexican national...read more

Product Description: A unique book that brings together two of the most important expressions of the pre-Hispanic era: The Aztec Calendar and the solar symbol Nahui Ollin . Time has transformed the Aztec Calendar into a symbol associated with ruthless human sacrifices performed by the Mexicas...read more

Displays the artwork and other artifacts of the Aztecs on exhibit at Britain's Royal Academy of Arts, and includes essays detailing key elements of Aztec culture and history.

Examines the Aztec civilization and discusses recent archaeological finds and theories

Displays the artwork of the Aztecs on exhibit at Britain's Royal Academy of Arts and includes essays detailing key elements of Aztec culture and history.

Product Description: Hermoso recorrido de los senderos de la creación de dioses, mitos y hombres a través de los textos antiguos, que corrobora ese acto creador comparándolo, paso a paso, con la arqueología de Templo Mayor de México-Tenochtitlán, donde Tláloc y Huitzilopochtli incorporan la presencia de un mundo dual marcado por la vida y la muerte...read more

Product Description: The great temple known as the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan symbolizes the axis mundi, the Aztec center of the world, where the sky, the earth, and the underworld met. In this volume, Matos Moctezuma uses his unmatched familiarity with the archaeological details to present a concise and well-supported development of this theme...read more

Product Description: A magnificently illustrated guide to the world of the Aztec people illuminates in colorful photographs and writing Aztec culture, religion, art, and activities of everyday life just prior to the Spanish invasion of 1519. Published in cooperation with the Denver Museum of Natural History which is showing an Aztec exhibit from September 1992 through April 1993...read more

Product Description: A history of the Teotihuacan site, well illustrated with photographs and plans

Product Description: The remains of the great double pyramid of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec empire, came to light during the spectacular excavation project undertaken by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia from 1978 to 1982. This volume offers three views of the Templo Mayor as the quintessential sacred space within the Aztec empire, presented in a collaborative effort by an archaeologist, an ethnohistorian, and a historian of religion...read more