A new analysis of hundreds of obsidian artifacts from the Aztec Empire has revealed the vast trade networks that supplied obsidian, sometimes even from rivals.

People lived in huts, and the temple for Huitzilopochtli ... Elizabeth Boone in her book "Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs" (University of Texas Press ...

Temple 7.0 The temple began as a modest structure in the 1300s, but as the Mexica, the ethnic group that came to rule the Aztec Empire, amassed wealth and territory, they enlarged the monument. By the ...

The inside is covered in cinnabar, a brick-red mineral that contains ... was the Aztec "new fire" god. The Aztecs kept a "holy fire" continuously burning in the Fire Temple at Tenochtitlan ...

Sealed in stone boxes five centuries ago at the foot of the temple ... once-bright-red starfish and upwards of 180 complete corral branches. Sign up here. Archeologists believe Aztec priests ...

Disillusion came quickly to the Spaniards themselves. At the sight of the white Aztec metropolis and its great temples amid blue lakes, green slopes and high peaks, a roughhewn, hard-bitten ...

The artifacts examined in the study were uncovered during excavations that took place over decades from the main Aztec temple of Tenochtitlán, called the Templo Mayor, in what is now Mexico City.