Mexica Collection

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

Mexico City. Quetzalcoatl Snake
MEXICO. Mexico City. National Museum of Anthropology. Teotihuacan Hall. Quetzalcoatl Snake. Aztec art. Sculpture

Idol Vitzliputzli (Huitzilopochtli). Mexican idol. Engraving. Historia de la Conquista de Mexico, poblacion, y progresos de la America septentrional

The Great Aztec Temple at Tenochtitlan. Dedicated to the god of war. Built in a large square, with an ashlar wall, carved on the outside with different loops of chained snakes. Engraving

Conquest of Mexico
Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519-21). Construction of the Villa Rica of La Vera Cruz, with the help of the Totonac Indians. Detail

Cortes, having landed on mainland, destroys his fleet
Hernan Cortes, having reached Mexico and discovering already a mutiny, decided to sink the ships to stop any more arising. Men in longboats surround ships, either sunk or sinking. Date: 1519

Cortes orders his men to sink his ships
Hernan Cortes orders his men to sink the ships, so that they cannot retreat. Camp has been set up on the banks, as men in longboats surround various boats either sunk or in the process of sinking

Market scene in pre-Columbian Tlatelolco
A market scene in the city state of Tlatelolco before the Spanish invasion. Various Mexica people crowd around market vendors in a colonnade selling wares such as pottery, animals skins, livestock

Xochipilli. Mexica deity of love, games, beauty, dance, flowers, maize, pleasure, arts and songs. Postclassic period (1325-1521). Aztec art. Sculpture on rock. MEXICO. FEDERAL DISTRICT. Mexico City

Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl, found at Colle de las Escalerilla. Aztec art. Sculpture. MEXICO. FEDERAL DISTRICT. Mexico City. National Museum of Anthropology

Stone of the Sun. 1479. Incorrectly known as Aztec Calendar. Disc shaped ceremonial monolith made of basalt with inscriptions about the Mexica cosmogony and the solar cults. Aztec art

San Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico - Open Air Theatre. The Pyramid of the sun can be seen in the background. Date: circa 1930s

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