Indigenous Agency, Historians’ Agendas, and Imagination in History Writing by Justyna Olko

“…Polygamy and the Rise and Demise of the Aztec Empire. By Ross Hassig. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016. …”
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La conquête de Mexico-Tenochtitlan dans le Codex Vaticanus A by Patrick Johansson K.

“…In two folios it offers a succinct but symbolically peculiar vision of the entrance of the Spanish into the Aztec capital, the encounter of Cortes with Motecuhzoma, and of the battles that followed, until Cuauhtemoc’s surrender on august 13th 1521.…”
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100 Wonders of the World : The Finest Treasures of Civilization and Nature on Five Continents / by Challacombe, Stephen, author 639210, Kraay, John N., translator 639211

“…Today there are many more man-made wonders from those of the modern age, such as the skyline of Manhattan, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, and the Eiffel Tower, to such historical wonders as the royal palace, monastery, and mausoleum of El Escorial in Spain, the Taj Mahal built by a grief-stricken Mogul, the astonishing Great Wall of China - which is the only evidence of humankind that can be seen from space - or the remains of the civilizations of the Mayans and Aztecs. The Escorial was built for Philip II, King of Spain, whoseconquistadorsbroughtan end to the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. …”

Representation and sense of the sun in the amerindian world by Alfonso Soriano Espinosa

“…On the following pages I present what any researcher can conclude when reading primary sources (indigenous codices and the Spanish chroniclers’ writings) regarding the Amerindian world: the presence of the solar star is the central element in all the Aztec, Maya and Muisca myths.…”
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Mexico: The Rabbit's Navel by Gutierre Tibón

“…This anatomical image has been supported by recent research which identifies the positions of the early lakes on the present site of Mexico City, showing a pattern similar to that perceived on the moon, in both cases resembling a rabbit. Aztec priests searched for a long time to locate an island on which to build a temple. …”
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RASTROS PREHISPÁNICOS EN LA POESÍA DE OCTAVIO PAZ (PREHISPANIC TRACES IN THE POETRY OF OCTAVIO PAZ) by GLORIA VERGARA

“…Quetzalcoatl, the legend of the suns and the Aztec calendar, as well as the image of Coatlicue constitute our dialogue, although some other gods of the pre-Hispanic imagery will be referred to Octavio Paz´s poetical work.…”
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Una crónica alternativa de la conquista de México. Otra Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España by Rubén D. Medina

“…The facts of the military occupation of the Mayan, Tlaxcaltecan and Aztec territories, by the Cortes’s troops, are reconstructed in this book, until Mexico  Tenochtitlan downfall. …”
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The Myth of Huitzilopochtli: Diachronic and Structural Interpretation by Igor Seke

“…The paper investigates the myth about the birth of Huicilopochtli, the deity considered by the Spanish conquistadors to be the supreme god of the Aztecs. Aztec myths are even today usually interpreted diachronically, strictly following the sequence of events. …”
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Cubic and hexagonal boron nitride doped MgB2 bulk superconductor by Gao, Z, Santra, S, Grovenor, C R M, Speller, S C

“…EDX data was taken using the Oxford Instruments Aztec software. XRD data was taken using an Empyrean Panalytical XRD instrument and was analysed using the Highscore plus software. …”

An ALMA survey of submillimetre galaxies in the COSMOS field: the extent of the radio-emitting region revealed by 3 GHz imaging with the Very Large Array by Miettinen, O, Novak, M, Smolčić, V, Delvecchio, I, Aravena, M, Brisbin, D, Karim, A, Murphy, EJ, Schinnerer, E, Albrecht, M, Aussel, H, Bertoldi, F, Capak, PL, Casey, CM, Civano, F, Hayward, CC, Herrera Ruiz, N, Ilbert, O, Jiang, C, Laigle, C, Le Fèvre, O, Magnelli, B, Marchesi, S, McCracken, HJ, Middelberg, E, Muñoz Arancibia, AM, Navarrete, F, Padilla, ND, Riechers, DA, Salvato, M, Scott, KS, Sheth, K, Tasca, LAM, Bondi, M, Zamorani, G

“…Three of the target SMGs, which are also detected with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 1.4 GHz (AzTEC/C24b, 61, and 77a), show clearly higher brightness temperatures than the typical values, reaching TB(3 GHz) > 104.03 K for AzTEC/C61.…”

Voir une chenille, dessiner un serpent à plumes. Une relecture analogique de l’hybridité et des êtres imaginaires en Mésoamérique préhispanique by Dimitri Karadimas

“…This contribution suggests to look at the figure of Quetzalcoatl – in the Teotihuacan iconography as in the later Aztec one – by analyzing imaginary beings and the representations of hybrids in Mesoamerica as an analogical transcription of real beings according to the principles of formal analogy. …”
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Deciphering the response of thirteen apple cultivars for growth, fruit morphology and fruit physico-chemical attributes during different years by Mohammed Tauseef Ali, Sheikh Mehraj, Mohammad Saleem Mir, Immad Ahmad Shah, Zahoor Ahmad Shah, Hamed A. El-Serehy, Eajaz Ahmad Dar, Arif Hussain Bhat, Sartaj Ahmad Wani, Uzma Fayaz, Fahad A. Al-Misned, Hesham M. Shafik

“…In 2017, cultivars Fuji Zehn Aztec (29.26) and Silver Spur (24.51), had the fewest leaves per fruit. …”
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Dimenticare l’aquila calpestata. La Conquista e il passato precoloniale nel paesaggio urbano di Città del Messico by Davide Domenici

“…The paper examines the various forms in which the memory of the Spanish conquest  has been materialized and signified in the monuments of Mexico City, formerly the capital of both the Aztec empire and the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Looking at how the memory of the Conquest was settled in the “mnemonic landscape” of the city  can reveal the identity strategies of a country that, born on the ashes of a destructive event, has always been forced to make sense of its painful past in order to plan its own future.…”
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Symmetric matrices, Catalan paths, and correlations by Emmanuel Tsukerman, Lauren Williams, Bernd Sturmfels

“…Each entry is an explicit Laurent polynomial whose terms are the weights of domino tilings of a half Aztec diamond. They conjectured an analogue of this parametrization for symmetric matrices, where the Laurent monomials are indexed by Catalan paths. …”
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Correlations for the Novak process by Eric Nordenstam, Benjamin Young

“…This model was introduced by Nordenstam and Young (2011) and has many intriguing similarities with a more well-studied model, domino tilings of the Aztec diamond. The most difficult step in the present paper is to compute the inverse of the matrix whose (i,j)-entry is the binomial coefficient $C(A, B_j-i)$ for indeterminate variables $A$ and $B_1, \dots , B_n…”
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Bezpowrotnie utracony raj? by Anna Gryglaszewska

“…Novelasimposibles the author returns to the Aztec Empire to make a reinterpretation of the events of 1519–1521, while the second novel Duerme takes the reader to the days of the colonial era. …”
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From church to pyramid by Susanna Rostas

“…Sometime after coming to Mexico City in the early twentieth century, the Concheros gradually became involved in the growing cultural interest in the Aztec past. By the last decades, however, they found themselves in an antagonistic situation with those dancers who called themselves the Mexica who, although they performed the same dances, espoused mexicanidad a strong neo-nationalistic and neo-indianist ideology. …”
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La cartografía como relato: intervenir los mapas, narrar las ciudades by Esperanza López Parada

“…The mystery surrounding the map of the first Aztec imperial city, published in the Latin translation of the Segunda Carta de Relación by Hernán Cortés —its origin, orientation, authorship, sense— goes with the changes that are introduced with a clear ideological bias in later reproductions by printers all over Europe. …”
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Classic Maya Settlement Clusters as Urban Neighborhoods: A Comparative Perspective on Low-Density Urbanism by Michael E. Smith

“…I review two Mesoamerican cases: the Aztec calpolli and the modern Tzotzil house cluster; and urban clusters in two African cases: the Nupe city of Bida in West Africa and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. …”
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International communication: journalism in Mexico today. Narratives of the information treatment of conflict and violence by Juan Francisco Torregrosa Carmona, Nancy Montemayor Rodríguez

“…The aim of this text is to be an approach to the reality of the journalism in the present Mexico from the notion of conflict in the treatment by the mass media. The case of the Aztec country is an example of the first order in the international media scene, due to the repeated and serious violence that must be addressed by the press in its broadest sense. …”
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