With its brilliant hues of blue and green, turquoise was a highly prized gemstone to the ancient Aztecs and Mixtec in the region that stretches from central Mexico to Central America known as ...

An extremely important 1-ton sculpture, sometimes referred to by archaeologists as an “Earth Monster” or Monument 9, was repatriated to Mexico from a private collection in Colorado in May 2023, ...

Retired Butte College and Chico State anthropology instructor Mike Findlay has long held a fascination with, and love of, Mesoamerica, “central southern Mexico and the northern portions of Central ...

At the height of their power, the Aztec Empire supported a population of up to 3 million in the Valley of Mexico, and many of their largest cities had populations exceeding 100,000. This was not easy, ...

The Aztecs reign over Mesoamerica as the last great culture before the Spanish conquest. As they venture south, a group of warriors finds Giant pyramids, the remains of an enormous ancient city ...

The cost of courage in Aztec Society -- 'Fierce and unnatural cruelty': Cortés and the conquest of Mexico -- Disciplining the Indians: Franciscan ideology and missionary violence in sixteenth-century ...

Aztec duck-head pendants recovered from Tenochtitlán were made using volcanic glass called obsidian. - Mirsa Islas/Courtesy Proyecto Templo Mayor, INAH Hundreds of obsidian artifacts have revealed ...

pt. I. The paradigm shifts in Mesoamerican studies. The myth and reality of Zuyuá : the Feathered Serpent and Mesoamerican transformations from the Classic to the Postclassic / Alfredo López Austin ...

New chemical analysis of Aztec turquoise artifacts suggests the stone didn’t come from the Southwestern US as archaeologists have long thought, which raises questions about the scale of long-distance ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – An extremely important 1-ton sculpture, sometimes referred to by archaeologists as an “Earth Monster” or Monument 9, was repatriated to Mexico from a private collection in ...