Archaeologists found that while the Mexica primarily used green obsidian, obsidian also came from at least seven other ...

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

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

Archaeologists working in Mexico City have unearthed hundreds of obsidian artifacts dating back to pre-Columbian Mesoamerica ...

The Aztecs didn't discover obsidian. It was already the most common raw material in Mesoamerica when they arrived in the ...

"Magic! Jubilee Edition", the grand international magic gala returns to Rome and promises to illuminate the eternal city with ...

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 ...

To moralise it away as graven-image paganism would be to miss the point of the power of the ritual object. Not a mistake made in the book under review, which is valuable on at least two counts ...

“it became clear” Congregation Jeshuat Israel removed at least two Torah scrolls “along with many ritual objects including, without limitation, finials, breast plates, and other ritual ...

Early in the Aztecs’ history, obsidian for ritual and everyday objects came from limited sources. But after the Aztec Empire defeated the Tepanecs from Azcapotzalco and began imperial expansion ...