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Newsletter Signup Subscribe to our daily newsletter! On Thursday, April 28, Los Angeles-based artist and researcher Sandy Rodriguez will give a keynote presentation in the Physical Science Building.Rodriguez will visit Cornell as part of the “From Invasive Others toward Embracing Each Other: Migration, Dispossession, and Place-Based Knowledge in the Arts of the Americas” project — […]

Evidence of hallucinogenic teotlnanácatl mushrooms, translated as “God’s flesh mushrooms” abounds in Aztec culture and continues even today in central Mexico.

The ancient Aztec riddle asked “What points its finger at the sky?” and the riddle’s answer “the Maguey Thorn” illustrates perfectly that esse...

The bizarre Cortes-as-Quetzalcoatl myth persists because it was actually a beneficial story both for the Spanish Conquistadors and the Aztec descendants.

From late 2020 to early 2022, many of Brown’s faculty received prominent awards, fellowships and other recognition for their path-breaking scholarship and bold ideas.

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The conquest of Mexico is depicted through Indigenous art in a pair of intriguing albeit uneven shows at the museum.

Spiced hot chocolate tablets from brands like Ibarra and Abuelita are best in a frothy cup of cocoa mixed with this tool, popular everywhere from Mexico to Colombia and beyond

Language, divinity, and race in the New World.

In 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes arrived on the outskirts of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the mighty Aztec Empire.