A detail from Book 9 of the Florentine Codex shows a feather worker preparing tropical bird feathers for a feather mosaic. The 16th century codex was created, in part, during a pandemic. (Biblioteca ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Details of the Martin de la Cruz Badiano codex (1552), made on European paper, are seen at the "Codices of Mexico, memories and ...

One of the most understated treasures in the current exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art, The Red That Colored the World, is the Florentine Codex. The book is opened to the pages that ...

A codex made of fig tree bark suggests that Aztec emperor Moctezuma was slain by a Spanish conquistador with a sword. A codex made of fig tree bark suggesting that Aztec emperor Moctezuma was slain by ...