Presents a photographic introduction to pyramids, explaining what they are, discussing how and when they were built, examining the purpose of pyramids, and looking at different pyramids around the world.

Explores the culture and beliefs of the Aztec and Maya peoples, with fifteen projects that allow readers to recreate some Aztec and Maya artifacts.

Describes archaeological excavations in Mexico and what the findings reveal about the ancient Aztec civilization.

Chronicles the history, beliefs, and everyday lives of the ancient Aztec, Inca, and the Maya peoples.

Using a travel guide format, describes the Aztec and Inca civilizatons in 1504, including their clothing, food, dwellings, sports, religion, and other aspects of daily life.

She was Luz Jimenez, child of the flower-song people, the powerful Aztec, who called themselves Nahua-- who lost their land but who did not disappear. As a young Nahua girl in Mexico during the early 1900s, Luz learned how to grind corn in a metate, to twist yarn with her toes, and to weave on a loom. By the fire at night, she listened to stories of her community's joys, suffering, and survival, and wove them into her heart. But when the Mexican Revolution...