The Aztec Empire once hosted an expansive trade network that brought volcanic glass to its capital from right across ...

Although Mexicas favored green obsidian, tool variety shows that multiple obsidian sources supplied the capital via markets, ...

What’s in a name? How much does changing the name of a body of water really matter? These are the questions that irked U.S.-based cartographer Michael Hermann when President Donald Trump renamed the ...

Blakeslee is a semi-retired anthropologist from Wichita State University. He’s polite, soft-spoken most of the time, and able ...

Nonfiction: A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian brilliantly reimagines the enduring conflict between the two Americas.

Traditionally, excavations deep in the jungles of Mexico, Central, and South America are difficult at best and dangerous at ...

How much of an area’s history ... Maya civilization, the comings and goings of neighboring societies, the Spanish invasion of nearby islands and then the mainland, and the fall of the Aztecs ...

In the southern Arizona desert, a fragment of forgotten history has emerged from the dust: a bronze cannon, silent for nearly ...

In the southern Arizona desert, a fragment of forgotten history has emerged from the ... by Hernán Cortés during his conquest of the Aztec Empire. The cannon’s design is as fascinating as ...

Researchers analyzed 788 obsidian artifacts from Tenochtitlan, revealing that the Mexica (Aztec) Empire sourced this important material from at least eight different locations, including regions ...