Horizon

Season 36, Episode 14

Episode Title: Blood and Flowers: In Search of the Aztecs

Air Date: 1999-09-09

Overview:

The Aztecs are regarded as the most bloodthirsty of the Central American peoples, but they were also one of the most sophisticated. DrTony Spawforth discovers how, on arriving in Mexico, they created a new and brutal mythology from the relics of an earlier civilisation.