Dominican missionary Diego Duran studied and recorded the ways of the Aztecs. “Moctezuma having become a great ...

This is the exhibition “The Aztecs”, which was present at the Ethnographic Museum in Vienna, where there is also the famous Moctezuma Plume that is unable to move to avoid any damage.

“I recommended that she insist on the Moctezuma plume, although it is an almost impossible mission, since they have completely appropriated it,” he wrote after posting a photograph of ...

Turquoise was also a key element in the regalia of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II, who conducted great rites of human sacrifice wearing a turquoise diadem, turquoise nose-plug, and a loin-cloth with ...