Region: Central Mexico, Valley of Mexico / Tenochtitlan | Late Postclassic Mesoamerica, c. 1325–1521 CE

The Aztec Civilization was one of the most powerful and sophisticated cultures of ancient Mesoamerica and is remembered above all for its monumental capital, Tenochtitlan. Active during the Late Postclassic period, it developed in a moment when urban planning, sacred architecture, ritual practice, astronomy, and symbolic art reached extraordinary complexity in central Mexico. Its monuments and objects reveal a highly organized worldview, where geometry, cosmology, warfare, agriculture, and religion were brought together in a visual language of great force and precision. The civilization is associated above all with the Templo Mayor, the city of Tenochtitlan, and the Aztec Sun Stone, works that confirm the depth of its cultural imagination and the enduring power of its artistic legacy.

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Selected Works / Cultural Monuments​

• Templo Mayor

• Tenochtitlan

• Aztec Sun Stone

• Chapultepec Aqueduct

• Tlatelolco Ceremonial Precinct