Browsing Archive: October, 2018

Aztecs With Macuahuitl

Posted by on Thursday, October 25, 2018, In : Art 





Drawings from the 16th-century Florentine Codex depicting Aztec warriors. The weapons they are brandishing are macuahuitls, wooden swords that were embedded with obsidian glass that was often as sharp as a modern-day, high-quality steel razor blade.



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