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

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 ...

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

The Aztecs were big fans of obsidian, and often used the razor-sharp volcanic glass to slice through the chests of human ...

Obsidian was central to Aztec life — not just for crafting sharp tools and sacred offerings, but as a reflection of political ...

New archaeological research by Tulane University and the Proyecto Templo Mayor in Mexico reveals how obsidian—a volcanic ...

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

Mexican pyramids are a key feature of ancient Mesoamerican architecture. While they share some similarities with Egyptian ...

Recounting the tale of the Spanish conquest, Aztec Rhapsodies tells of heroism, triumph and tragedy in epic verse.

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

It is more than twice as old as ancient Egypt or even Stonehenge and almost five times the age of classical Greece. The civilization now gradually being revealed, appears to have been the first to ...

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide—but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study of hundreds of ancient human genomes.