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Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
Involved in the research, preservation, protection, and promotion of the archaeological, anthropological, and historical heritage of Mexico.
www.inah.gob.mx
Aztec - Wikipedia
Article about the Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people of central Mexico. Learn about the Aztecs' history, culture, every day life, and legacy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec
AncientMexico.com [read review]
Educational resource for the art, history, and archaeology of ancient Mesoamerica.
www.ancientmexico.com
Indigenous Peoples' Literature: The Aztecs/Mexicas
Includes Aztec creation stories and poems as well as information about their culture and languages.
www.indians.org/welker/aztec.htm
Mexica/Aztecs, The
Describes the history, religion, economy, society, and writings of the Aztec culture that dominated the Valley of Mexico in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/AZTECS.HTM
Teotihuacan (8)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Anthropology_and_Archaeology/Teotihuacan
Aztecs
Designed to educate children in this ancient civilization.
home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/aztecs.htm
Crystalinks: Aztec Civilization
Features information about the Aztec's calendar, creation stories, culture, current archaeological discoveries, and more.
www.crystalinks.com/aztecs.html
Quetzalcoatl: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
Devoted to the study of the myth, the legend, and possible Olmec origins of the Mesoamerican god.
weber.ucsd.edu/~anthclub/quetzalcoatl/quetzal.htm
Ancient Mesoamerican Writing
Ancient books of Mexico, including the Aztec, Maya and Mixtec codices, & the Borgia Codex Group. Examples from carved monumental architecture and archaeological ceramics.
pages.prodigy.com/GBonline/ancwrite.html
Mexican Footprints
Details the research of 40,000 year-old, fossilized human footprints discovered at Cerro Toluquilla in the Valsequillo Basin in Central Mexico.
www.mexicanfootprints.co.uk
Nettlesworth Primary School: The Aztecs
School children's report on the important people, main events, arts and crafts, and other aspects of daily life in the ancient Aztec Empire.
www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/aztec.html
Royal Academy of Arts: Aztecs
Exhibit featuring 350 spectacular works that trace the life and times of the Aztecs, an extraordinary people, who in the space of only 200 years (from 1325 to 1521) created one of the most impressive civilisations in the world.
www.aztecs.org.uk
Tenochtitlán (2)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Anthropology_and_Archaeology/Tenochtitlan
Empires Past: Aztec
Offers a profile of the ancient civilization's social structure and government, farming and agriculture, religion, art, science, and commerce.
library.thinkquest.org/16325/y-main.html
Ancient Aztecs, The
Timeline, rulers, religious beliefs, Aztec life, and more.
library.thinkquest.org/27981
The Aztecs: A Pre-Columbian History
Curriculum guide offering an introduction to the Aztecs, most widely known of all pre-Columbian peoples of the Americas.
www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1999/2/99.02.01.x.html
The Aztec World
Explore the everyday lives of Aztec men and women at all levels of society -- from commoners to kings -- and examine their roles in an empire whose legacy lives on today in modern Mexico. From the Field Museum exhibit, The Aztec World.
www.fieldmuseum.org/aztecs
Acoyauh's Aztec Lore
Includes an explanation of Nahuatl grammar, Nahuatl-English and Nahuatl-Spanish dictionaries, a list of Aztec gods, creation myths, and a brief historical overview of the Mayan culture.
www.acoyauh.com
NOVA: Search for the Lost Cave People
In 1997, archaeologists ventured into the Chiapas region of Mexico to search for the remains of a little-known civilization that preceded the Maya and found astonishing archaeological treasures.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/laventa

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