The two most common calendars were the 260-day festival calendar and the 365-day solar calendar. The correlation between the two occurs every 52 years when both begin their new years. This is called ...

It provided inspiration for the SDSU football team’s iconic Aztec calendar helmets. The calendar also appears on SDSU’s jersey sleeves and down the side of the players’ pants, but it is on ...

Back then, kids liked to express themselves by drawing on walls, too. The Aztec Calendar Stone holds information about astronomy, agriculture, and more. One of Mexico's most iconic artifacts ...

Vividly illustrated with over 2,000 drawings, the General History of the Things of New Spain, compiled by Brother Bernardino de Sahagún in the 16th century, was a complete survey of Aztec culture.

In contemporary culture, they're the focus of numerous historical studies, films, books, visual works of art and other media ...

including the famous Aztec Calendar Stone, known as Piedra del Sol, as well as the ancient statue of Xochipilli, the Aztec god of art, games, beauty, dance and maize (among others). The museum ...

Catch the color fields of Alma Thomas, moving pictures at the Digerati Experimental Media Festival and outdoor painting at ...

Author DBC Pierre travels through Mexico on a personal odyssey to recount the fate of the Aztec civilization ... allegedly the most cursed day of the calendar. But why do we fear the day?

A recent spate of graffiti in Aztec’s revitalized downtown business core raised the topic of Broken Windows Theory and how ...

The main park in Mexico City, Bosque de Chapultepec (Chapultepec Forest) was once the temporary home of the Aztec empire after ... everything from souvenirs to art to snacks.

The Aztec, who referred to themselves as the Mexica, began as a group of nomadic peoples who settled on Lake Texcoco in central Mexico around the year 1325. After introducing the reader to the ...