Time for #Aztecbatman #batmanazteca from “Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires” to meet the little known but REAL #Mexica/#Aztec bat deity Tlacatzinacantli.Learn about the role of bats in ancient #Mesoamerica -.#WarnerBros

Showing #Mexica/#Aztec prowess at LOGarhythms! We've animated the classic C16 image by Christopher Weiditz. The International Jugglers Association calls log juggling 'one of Mexico’s greatest contributions to the modern circus community. ’ Learn more -.

The first FEMALE representation at the founding of #Tenochtitlan 700 years ago. Mind you, only the men are named☹️ (Tira de Tepechpan). Mexican codices emphasise different graphic signs to indicate the event; see the range of signs here.

We're delighted to welcome Professors Traci Ardren (University of Miami) and Kelly McDonough (University of Texas at Austin) to our Panel of (over 100!) Experts on the #Mexica/#Aztecs and ancient #Maya. 'Ask the Experts' service

TODAY English sculptor Henry Moore was born (1898). 'It was the art of ancient #Mexico that spoke to me most'. 'The Chacmool became probably the most influential single sculpture in Henry Moore’s life' - they inspired his reclining figures. Learn more.

Forget Gotham City: The next Batman lives in ancient Tenochtitlán via @Mexico News Daily.

The ancient #Maya were the first beekeepers in the Americas. They revered the native stingless bees of Yucatan. But did they have bee deities? More than one, it seems. Here is the Maya 'diving god' in a pose similar to that of descending bees. Learn more -.

Guess what some #Maya today call their children/ grandchildren? - 'kexol', replacements of their ancestors, from the ancient Maya idea that souls are recycled. (‘A Cosmology of Conservation in the Ancient Maya World’ by Lisa Lucero, 2018).Pic: an ancestor emerges from a flower.

Some #Mesoamerican calendar experts believe the sacred number 13 represents the articulations of the human body - ankles, knees, hips, wrists, elbows, shoulders and neck. Intriguing. Plausible?

Mexico City to transform into living museum for Tenochtitlán’s 700th anniversary via @Mexico News Daily.

An 8-year-old asked us this week 'Why were there 9 levels of the Underworld?' (note the 9 levels of many temple-pyramids. ). Years ago Eduardo Matos Moctezuma claimed they correspond to the 9 months of a woman’s pregnancy. Is this still current thinking?.Photo by Georges Fery.

#Mexica/#Aztec/#Nahua women skilled at preparing a good cacao beverage were called ixtlamati in #Nahuatl - 'wise person who is experienced' - used to characterise women engaged in preparing beverages in Book 10 of the Florentine Codex. Learn more -.

Half a century ago the great #Aztec/#Nahua scholar Henry B. Nicholson compiled a most useful summary of #Mexica ‘deity representations’. We bring his pioneering survey of deity insignia to life. (Below: Itzpapalotl, 'Obsidian Butterfly')

Mexico’s Museum of Anthropology wins prestigious Princess of Asturias Award for Concord via @Mexico News Daily.

We/re honoured to welcome Dr. Danny Zborover, Curator and Head of Americas Section, the British Museum, and Professor Michael Grofe, Chair, Anthropology Dept., Sacramento City College, to our Panel of Experts on the #Aztecs/#Mexica and the #Maya -.

Bernal Díaz de Castillo said he saw 'over 100,000' skulls at the #Mexica/#Aztec Templo Mayor. A fellow Spaniard claimed 136,000. These figures are 200x the number recently found by archaeologists. Can we all agree they may have exaggerated things slightly?.Pic: Miguel Covarrubias

The two most precious commodities to the #Aztecs/#Mexica, ancient #Maya and other Mesoamericans: quetzal feathers and jade; equally rare, beautiful and sought after. Our animation of an image in the Florentine Codex - see more here -.

COMMEMORATIONS. 400 years ago Samuel Purchas reproduced most of the Codex Mendoza in 'Hakluytus posthumus' (1625). Constituting a unique Indigenous source about the #Aztec world, it 'may well be the single most reproduced and studied New World manuscript'.

#Aztec limerick no. 73 (ode to Oaxaca):-.'There’s a place you’ll think you don’t know –."Where guaje trees (first) start to grow";.Its old name: Huaxyaca(c).Is now called Oaxaca –.As famous as Pinocchio!'.Learn more here -.Pic: Codex Mendoza, fol. 17v

The #Mexica/#Aztecs believed rare metals/minerals to be the physical evidence of the presence of gods, long ago, here on the earth: gold = the sun god's poo, silver = poo of the moon goddess. Jade/turquoise were the bogies of the earth monster.