It provided inspiration for the SDSU football team’s iconic Aztec calendar helmets. The calendar also appears on SDSU’s jersey sleeves and down the side of the players’ pants, but it is on ...

In contemporary culture, they're the focus of numerous historical studies, films, books, visual works of art and other media ...

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Vividly illustrated with over 2,000 drawings, the General History of the Things of New Spain, compiled by Brother Bernardino de Sahagún in the 16th century, was a complete survey of Aztec culture.

It was for a high fee of course,” he says with a chuckle. H_art the Band’s Kenchez Muya, an ardent tattoo fanatic, says the etched designs on the body are an expression of self beauty and emotion.

The Aztec, who referred to themselves as the Mexica, began as a group of nomadic peoples who settled on Lake Texcoco in central Mexico around the year 1325. After introducing the reader to the ...

Life’s not easy. Sometimes you just gotta take chances and risks if you want better for yourself,” said business owner Lupita ...

Jesse Brady, a local artist who tattoos at the Sacred Siren Tattoo & Art Parlor in Minneapolis, booked her tattoos in advance, doing only one eight- to nine-hour piece daily. She said she wants to ...

One artist, Dahye Lee, also known as Dareum Tattoo, is a master of the art of the painterly brushstroke tattoo. Lee loves using this oil pastel style of tattoo because it’s so drastically ...

But these are not photographs: each hyperreal image is in fact a color pencil drawing, resulting from between 300 and 500 hours of careful construction. Now, Holmes’ works have been brought ...