During French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Mexico in November, he and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to simultaneous loans of two colonial-era codices: the Codex Azcatitlán, held ...
The Aztec world didn’t disappear into legend. It left records on screenfold books made from bark paper and animal hide. Reading them today matters because they are the Aztecs’ own self-portrait, ...