Once, the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan had a library full of thousands of written works. But when Spanish conquistadors arrived, they destroyed almost all of these codices—long scrolls folded into books ...

Photographs and papers relating to alleged Mayan codices. The correspondence between Matthew Williams Stirling and Eric Thompson discusses the authenticity of a possible codex, also in the collection, ...

Less than 20 known precolonial codices from the area of modern-day Mexico exist, and researchers have recently uncovered hidden imagery beneath the pages of one. Dating to around 1560 and known as ...

OXFORD, 16 August 2016 - Researchers from the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries and from universities in the Netherlands have used high-tech imaging to uncover the details of a rare Mexican ...

The Mixtec Art of War: unveiling military ideology in pre-Columbian cultures According to chronicles and codices, the Mixtec culture had military strategies similar to those presented in Sun Tzu’s The ...

The front of Codex Selden, showing the known pictographic scenes that are visible to the naked eye. Beneath its pages, scientists have discovered hidden imagery (Bodleian Libraries, University of ...

Researchers have used high-tech imaging to uncover the details of a rare Mexican codex dating from before the colonization of the Americas. The newly revealed codex, or book, has been hidden from view ...