Posted in Art A Serpentine Example of Aztec Body Modification Slithers into The Met by Allison Meier June 17, 2016 June 18, 2016. Subscribe to our newsletter.

‘The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire,’ Getty Villa, 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, (310) 440-7300, through July 5. Admission: Free, tickets required. Parking: $15.

The British Museum's exhibition of Aztec artefacts is full of truly stunning pieces, says Tom Lubbock – but behind the beauty lies a viciously bloody cult ...

AZTEC LIFE ILLUSTRATED; Significance of the Exhibit of Ancient Mexican Art. MYSTERY OF THE CODICES As Represented in American Museum, Scholars May Decipher Them -- Forbidding Sacrificial Stones.

When Cortés and his conquistadors overran the Aztec empire in 1520, they found “a society unlike any they had encountered hitherto,” said Emily Sharpe in The Art Newspaper. The natives of the ...

An art revolution is spreading on Mexico City's walls. But this is more than just graffiti. The new urban 'street art' movement sweeping the former Aztec capital borrows heavily from Mexico's ...

Sound samples and images of the skull-shaped body of the Aztec death whistle; Journal Reference: Sascha Frühholz, Pablo Rodriguez, Mathilde Bonard, Florence Steiner, Marine Bobin.