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

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

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

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.