The Aztec world didn’t disappear into legend. It left records on screenfold books made from bark paper and animal hide. Reading them today matters because they are the Aztecs’ own self-portrait, ...

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Produced by Mexico City-based animated outfit Ánima Estudios, a company at the forefront of the medium in the country for ...