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Codex Borgia
Anonymous painter-scribes of central Mexico · Late 15th or early 16th century · Pictographic
Ancient text
Codex Borgia
Anonymous painter-scribes of central Mexico
Painted deerskin divinatory book from central Mexico, one of the few codices to survive the conquest, laying out the 260-day calendar and the deities who govern it.
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Painted deerskin divinatory book from central Mexico, one of the few codices to survive the conquest, laying out the 260-day calendar and the deities who govern it.
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