All communication relies on a code of sorts, a combination of symbols, sounds or gestures that — once there is a common ...

Among them was the conquistador Hernando Cortes, who led massacres in Mexico but who also, some scholars believe, had the famous Dresden Codex—one of just four Maya illustrated books surviving ...

Enrique Chagoya’s “Codex YTREBIL” is part of the exhibit ... the folded paper technique that was used by scribes in early Mayan culture. Her “Slashed, Tagged, and Almost Censored ...