Known in Nahuatl as Yancuic Xihuitl, the Aztec New Year is traditionally celebrated on March 12. The event, held on the ...

Scientists suggest in a new study that ancient Mesoamericans tracked leap years using a sunlit horizon. By Becky Ferreira Long before Europeans colonized North America, the Indigenous peoples in the ...

When there’s a will, there’s a way. And for Zelia Nuttall, a lack of a college education and a professorship were not going to stand in the way of what she wanted. As a single mother in the late 1800s ...

The Aztec calendar is different from the Maya calendar. The latter one has recently gained wide popularity due to the year 2012 prediction of the end of the world. The Aztec and the Maya people, ...

GARDEN GROVE (KABC) -- Nine people in an Orange County drug ring have been indicted for trying to ship 25 pounds of meth disguised as Aztec calendars and decorations from Garden Grove to Hawaii. The ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a twentieth century replica ...