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

Okay, so you know how pocket knives can sometimes accidentally open ... in either a standard sandblasted titanium finish, or a Deep Obsidian Black matte finish applied through an oxidation process ...

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

Aztec obsidian knives from the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlán Credit: JoaquinVilaG / Wikimedia Commons Archaeologists from Tulane University and the Templo Mayor Project of Mexico’s National Institute ...

Researchers found 788 obsidian artifacts, including sacrificial knives, blades, and ear spools, at the Temple Mayor in Tenochtitlan. Roughly 90 percent of the artifacts were sourced from Sierra de ...

Obsidian could be shaped into sharp tools like blades. Miniature weapons, such as this small knife, were buried as offerings at Tenochtitlán. The artifacts examined in the study were uncovered ...