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The Codex Mendoza is a sixteenth-century manuscript created in colonial Mexico, probably during the early 1540s and associated with Antonio de Mendoza, the first viceroy of New Spain. Its pictorial and Spanish-language sections describe Mexica rulers and conquests, tribute owed by subject towns, and...
The Codex Borgia is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican screenfold manuscript associated with the group of ritual books named after it. Painted on animal skin and folded accordion-style, it presents deities, calendrical signs, ceremonies, and divinatory sequences connected with the 260-day ritual calendar....
Uruk Pictographic Tablets are ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets created around 3200 BCE. These inscribed objects represent some of the world’s first written communication. They feature pictorial symbols used primarily for administrative record-keeping within Sumerian city-states. Archaeologists and...
