According to the book “Eclipses in the Aztec Codices” – referring to the Codex Vaticanus – the Aztecs thought that a jaguar was going to eat the sun. This idea translated and evolved into ...

Along the street you can see the ruins of what was once the Aztec temple, and the sacred Aztec precinct is now largely taken up by the huge Spanish Baroque cathedral dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

It is one of the best-preserved examples of pre-conquest Aztec-style writing that exists, after Catholic authorities in colonial-era Mexico dismissed such codices as the work of the devil and ...