Whilst researching Mexican culture, I was attracted to the different styles of Aztec patterns commonly used in Mexican art. I felt these patterns not only conveyed the Mexican theme but would also ...

The lives of the Aztec common people were far richer and more complex than the official histories would have us believe In 1519, when Hernn Corts led his army into Tenochtitlán in the Valley of Mexico ...

Five centuries later, the pattern that destroyed Tenochtitlan shows up anywhere power rests on coercion over cooperation. Fear keeps subjects in line, until you need allies. The Aztec Empire spent a ...