News from the John W. Kluge Center: The Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs: Digital Resources Illuminating a Graphic Communication System of Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Join us for The Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs: Digital Resources Illuminating a Graphic Communication System of Sixteenth-Century Mexico on Wednesday, June 21 at 4pm. Watch online or in person in room LJ-119 of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress. Free registration is available here.

Historian of Mesoamerica Stephanie Wood will discuss the Nahuatl hieroglyphic writing system and discoveries she made through Library collections while in residence as Jay I. Kislak Chair. She will also highlight an exciting project to collect these hieroglyphs in a free, online, annotated database that serves as a reference work for teachers, a cultural preservation resource, and a decipherment aide