3. Alexander von Humboldt was the first to describe this fear of idolatry, writing in 1803:“The
professors of this University, priests from the order of St. Dominic, did not want to expose this …

The lintels of Yaxchilan Structure 23 are among the most famous of all Maya monuments.
Dedicated by Ix K'abal Xook in 726 CE, while her husband Itzamnaaj Bahlam III was the …

The first school for higher learning founded in the Americas after the Spanish conquest was
for native students. The Imperial College of Santa Cruz was established in 1536 in …

This project centers on two inquisitorial investigations which began in the 1540s. One is from
Spain (Valencia), and the other from Mexico (Yanhuitlan, Oaxaca). The first involves …

For example, Nahua people in sixteenth-century Central Mexico drank chocolate as a
beverage. hey called it cacahuatl, and when the Europeans arrived, the Nahuatl word …

For over four hundred years, from around 1250 to 1600, a shared system of visual
communication was used throughout Mesoamerica. From the Valley of Mexico to the …

This essay is about questions of comparison–specifically, comparisons of Mesoamerican
and Mediterranean worlds in the sixteenth century. This is a familiar topic with regard to …

A single word, tz'ib, described the acts of painting and writing among the ancient Maya of
Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize. Achieved by the means of a brush dipped in ink …

In 1495, Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija published a Castilian to Latin dictionary. It
became a bestseller. Copies were carried across the globe, and they inspired new …

Este ensaio explora uma técnica específica de ilustração utilizada por arqueólogos
mesoamericanistas: o desenho linear e, particularmente, o método de combinar croquis de …