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The influential architectural style, which became popular between 1919 and 1939, draws inspiration from Aztec art ... building design in Britain this book is the ideal gift for architecture ...

Mount Vesuvius' eruption preserved the Herculaneum scrolls beneath a blanket of ash. Two millennia later, X-ray scans show ...

New archaeological research by Tulane University and the Proyecto Templo Mayor in Mexico reveals how obsidian—a volcanic ...

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

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 ...

The study sheds new light on the economic networks, rituals and political influence of the Mexica (Aztec ... Mexico’s Proyecto Templo Mayor of the National Institute of Anthropology and History ...

Using artificial intelligence, they’ve developed methods to peer inside the Herculaneum scrolls without damaging them, revealing short passages of ancient text. This month, researchers announced ...

one theory about the school’s past is that it was once an ancient cemetery, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a May 13 news release. That theory turned out to be ...