The links on this page will help you to find out more about the Aztecs. If you have any questions about material on these sites please email the sites' editors or webmasters. The Royal Academy of Arts is not responisble for any of the content on these sites. If you would like to suggest a link for this section of www.aztecs.org.uk please email: stephen.little@royalacademy.org.uk

www.ancientmexico.com is an educational site which focuses on ancient Mexico. It features timelines, maps and explanatory introductions. The original sources are particularly interesting. These include a native Indian account of Aztec religious rituals and a letter from Cortés to Charles V in which Cortés describes his meeting with the Aztec Emperor Montezuma. Be patient if the site takes a while to download!
Click here to visit www.ancientmexico.com

The Temlpo Mayor Museum website is incredibly informative. It includes features on the physical structure of the Templo Mayor, the temple's role in Aztec religion and more general pieces on historical archaeology. There are also links to other sites such as the Archaeological Research Unit.
Click here to visit the Templo Mayor Museum website.

Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology has a website which gives brief introductions to the nation's anthropological heritage. The pages are available in Spanish and English and will be of particular interest to teachers who want to combine Spanish language classes with an introduction to Mexican anthropological history.
Click here to visit Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology.

The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute website has lesson outlines for teaching students about Mexican culture and the Aztec calendar.
Click here to visit www.yale.edu and explore Harriet J. Bauman's lesson plans.

This site contains a large amount of information about the complex Aztec calendar. The Aztec year was 260 days long and divided into 20 weeks of 13 days. Rather than being a purely cyclical calendar each day of the Aztec year had a unique significance.
Click here to visit rubens.anu.edu.au and read about the Aztec calendar.

www.azteccalendar.com writes out the date in Aztec pictographic script — it's a good visual reminder of just how different the Aztec calendar was from our own.
Click here to visit www.azteccalendar.com

In 'The Enigma of Aztec Sacrifice' Michael Harner explores possible ecological factors in the development of this extreme religious practice.
Click here to visit www.rose-hulman.edu.au and read Michael Harner's feature.

In 'City of the Gods' Michael D. Lemonick describes recent archaeological finds which may help to solve some of the mystery surrounding the earliest origins of the city of Teotihuacan.
Click here to visit www.rose-hulman.edu.au and read Michael D. Lemonick's feature.