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When multinational companies such as Nestlé are developing products, what standards do they comply to? The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) Codex Alimentarius applies globally, both to ...

This includes Aztec codices, which are quite rare because most ... When placed on top of a layered earth glyph, this symbol signifies moving ground—aka, an earthquake. Within some codices ...

The Codex Borbonicus is a prominent example ... calendrical and ritualistic information. Like the Aztec and early Egyptian pictographs, the symbols on message sticks hold complex and culturally ...

"There are only four Mayan codices in the world, and Mexico holds only one. The BnF also owns the Aztec codex Telleriano-Remensis, which is also of great importance for describing the Aztec ...

The findings support the hypothesis that such whistles may have been used in Aztec religious rituals or perhaps as mythological symbols. Archaeologists unearthed the first Aztec death whistles ...

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Aztec Codex illustration of ritual sacrifice. But why did the Aztecs create such unsettling instruments? Researchers believe the answer lies in their cultural and religious practices. The whistles ...

Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has secured the colorful San Andrés Tetepilco codices. These Aztec documents from the late 16th and early 17th centuries recount ...