aztecs blood, beauty and brutality - METRO LIFE; They may have had a penchant for human sacrifice but the Aztecs also loved art and politics, as a glittering new exhibition reveals.

The Evening Standard (London, England) | November 15, 2002| | Copyright

Byline: ISABEL CARLISLE

The Aztecs are one of the world's great, lost civilisations. The meeting in 1519 of their emperor Montezuma with Cortes, the conquistador from Spain who two years later would destroy the Aztecs, ranks as one of those defining moments of history when two opposing world views collided. Montezuma saw Cortes as an emissary of the gods - Cortes saw the Aztec gold and used his steel weapons, sailing ships and horses to get it.

Yet apart from their bloodthirsty appetite for human sacrifice we seem to know very little about the Aztecs. The ...

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