Historical sources and archaeological evidence have made us aware of the Mexica’s deep fascination with the material vestiges of civilizations that preceded them. Data generated by the Templo Mayor Project have revealed ...

In this review, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma analyzes Ximena Chávez Balderas’s study on human sacrifice and postsacrificial treatments at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan. The book details the types of immolation, involved ...

Miguel León-Portilla reviews Jaime Lara’s City, Temple, Stage, analyzing the inculturation of Christianity in New Spain through architecture, liturgy, and theatrical expressions. The review highlights the interpretive and ...

This article intends to define the forms that the symbolic construction of authority assumed in the process of creation of the ruling elites, as well as the relationships that could have existed between the exercise of ...

This article examines The Three Kings (a 16th-century work of missionary theater) as an example of dialogical theater that communicates both a public Christian transcript and a hidden Nahua transcript. Through an analysis ...

Rodrigo Martínez Baracs reviews the book Tesoro mexicano, a luxurious volume that brings together studies on European and Indigenous views of the American natural world. The book focuses on the 16th-century monumental work ...

In the ritual cycle of the solar and divinatory calendars, the ancient Nahuas created edible effigies of their gods using amaranth dough mixed with maize and honey, known as tzoalli. This article returns to the tzoalli ...

Review of the book El México antiguo en la historia universal by Miguel León-Portilla, edited by Juan José Salazar. The book compiles essays by the author on the civilizational value and cultural history of pre-Hispanic ...

Miguel León-Portilla examines how the ancient Nahuas conceptualized the human being as a "macehual"—a person deserved through the sacrifice of the gods. Drawing on colonial Nahuatl texts and the interpretations of friars ...

In this review, Salvador Rueda Smithers analyzes Eduardo Matos Moctezuma’s Historia de la arqueología del México antiguo. Rather than providing a simple chronological account of excavations or renowned archaeologists, the ...