Aztecs Gallery

Symbolic characters, numerals and figures

Symbolic characters, numerals and figures of the Aztecs, Mexico. Number hieroglyphs, and symbols for day A, night B, midnight C, year D, century E, sky F, air G, earth H, water I, and flood L. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Luigi Giarre from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

1704 Gemelli Map of the Aztec Migration

1704 Gemelli Map - According to legend on exactly May 24, 1065 CE, the Mexica (Aztec) began an epic migration from their ancestral homeland, Aztlan, which translated means Place of Reeds or Place of Egrets, to the shores of Lake Texcoco, in Mexicos Central Mesa. There they founded the city of Tenochtitlan which in time spawned the vast Aztec Empire. Date: 1065

© Mary Evans Picture Library

The Last Aztecs - Maximo and Bartolo

Two sideshow exhibits, Maximo and Bartola, both sufferes of microcephaly, who were billed by freakshow promoters as The Last Aztecs'. Barnum renamed the duo as The Aztec Wonders and many of the photos that exist of Maximo and Bartola are from this era of their career. Date: circa 1860

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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