Last weekend, I took a trip to the Aztecs exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Despite having to queue for an hour on a freezing February morning, once inside it was well worth the wait. Each of the rooms was packed full of amazing artefacts from the Aztec culture, revealing the secrets from a beautiful, but bloody, world.
The highlight of the exhibition for me was an object called Head of a Youth. Crafted around 1500, this stone carved head was well preserved and had a strange lifelike quality. The head had blazing red eyes, burning as brightly as the day they were crafted.
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