Friday, December 18, 2009

A VISIT TO MOCTEZUMA (NOT MONTEZUMA) AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM


model of the city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan


Codex Mendoza, from around 1540, (also known as the Codice Mendocino) which has been deposited at the Bodleian Library in Oxford since 1659 where it remained in obscurity until 1831, and which depicts the history of the Mexicas/Aztecs until 1521 when conquered by the Spanish.

http://www.britishmuseum.org

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