The American Southwest, including Arizona and New Mexico, is chock-full of ancient turquoise mines. Mesoamerica, including southern Mexico and Central America, however, have few if any. So ...

The Aztec Empire stands as one of the most enigmatic civilizations in history, with numerous mysteries that continue to defy ...

(Another centuries-old Aztec mystery appears to have been solved earlier this year.) This article originally appeared on Newser: Ancient Turquoise Rewrites Aztec History ...

New chemical analysis of Aztec turquoise artifacts suggests the stone didn’t come from the Southwestern US as archaeologists have long thought, which raises questions about the scale of long ...

Was Aztec and Mixtec turquoise mined in the American Southwest? Science Advances, 2018; 4 (6): eaas9370 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aas9370 ...