Almost all the ceremonial artifacts found inside buried offerings at the Templo Mayor were made with this type of obsidian, including miniature weapons, jewelry and inlays for sculptures.

Vast Aztec trade networks behind ancient obsidian artifacts Date: May 12, 2025 Source: Tulane University Summary: Researchers analyzed 788 obsidian artifacts from Tenochtitlan, revealing that the ...

What the archeologists don't know about pre-Spanish America dims about 20 centuries of history. Much of what they do know has been dug up with scraps of Mayan, Toltec and Aztec sculpture. Last ...

Electricity workers in Mexico City accidentally uncovered a massive stone sculpture in 1978. It turned out to be the Aztec Goddess of the Moon, Coyolxauhqui. The sculpture was found in an area ...

Divers Found a 3,000-Year-Old Statue at the Bottom of a Lake—With Fresh Human Fingerprints Musk SpaceX rescue mission is ‘American exceptionalism at its finest,’ says Tomi Lahren ...

“The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture” will be on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum through Sept. 14.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The bold, angular Aztec mask became ...

THE mystery of an ancient 3,000-year-old “door to hell” dedicated to an Aztec god has been solved after it was stolen from a hidden cave. The Mexican artefact, called the Olmec Cave Mas… ...