Aztec codices: history in pictures
Aztec codices, crafted from tree bark, used sophisticated pictorial symbols to record history and knowledge, offering a vibrant window into a lost Mesoamerican world.
Before books as we know them, Aztecs recorded their history and knowledge in codices made from fig tree bark paper. These weren't written with letters but with intricate pictorial symbols, glyphs, and ideograms. Aztec scribes, called tlacuilos, used these visual stories to document everything from gods and rulers to battles and astronomical events.
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