Key to that perception was the belief that Aztec hieroglyphic signs did not constitute ... the Zapotecs (of south central Mexico) and was in use between around 400 BC and 800 A.D. The region's ...

“Sadly, many scholars over the centuries have tended to dismiss the Aztecs’ hieroglyphic system because it looked to Europeans like picture-writing,” Whittaker, author of Deciphering Aztec ...