AZTEC CODEX PAINTINGS

Aztec codices—deerskin or maguey books painted with bright pigments—used pictographs and symbols to record history, tribute, and ritual calendars (e.g. Codex Borgia). Read accordion-style, these pre-Columbian graphic novels are an inclusive Mexican heritage art, offering the world invaluable insight into Nahua cosmology, governance, and the conquest through Indigenous eyes.