There are very few pre-Columbian manuscripts in the world; the Codex Cospi is one of them. These days, this manuscript is being analyzed at Bologna University Library in collaboration with Palazzo ...

Scholars of pre-Columbian history have been trying to decipher something called the Grolier Codex ever since it was discovered by looters in a Chiapas cave back in the '60s. It's a 13th-century ...

The Nahuan (i.e. "Aztec") divinatory manuscript, also known as Codex Cospi, represents a rare example of a pre-Columbian "book". Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy ...

New chemical analysis of Aztec turquoise artifacts suggests the stone didn’t come from the Southwestern US as archaeologists have long thought, which raises questions about the scale of long-distance ...

Detail of the Codex Mendoza from its new digital platform (all screenshots by the author for Hyperallergic) One of the major textual resources on pre-Columbian Mexico is now online in a digital ...

The year is 1575. Mexico City has been struck by a plague. But behind the walls of a specialized school, painters, artists, and wise men of the Aztec tradition are working to complete a project that ...

The Codex Fejervary-Mayer is a pre-Columbian pictorial manuscript that relates to determing the calendar. It also describes ceremonies devoted to certain gods. The original Codex Fejervary-Mayer is ...

Pre-Columbian Society at the University Museum (University of Pennsylvania) https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri ...

AMONG the papers presented to the International Congress of Americanists during the session held in London at the end of last June was a pamphlet by Mr. J. Cooper Clark entitled “The Story of ‘Eight ...