George McJunkin (1851–1922) was an African American cowboy, rancher and amateur archaeologist whose extraordinary discovery ...

The new installation celebrates over 4,000 years of Indigenous art of the Americas with contemporary art, community perspectives, and bilingual materials ...

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

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

New archaeological research led by Tulane University and Mexico’s Proyecto Templo Mayor has unveiled the extensive trade ...

The Mingei International Museum's "Fashioning an Icon" exhibit features creative works in textiles, clothing and accessories inspired by the Virgin of Guadalupe.

An injury that could be concealed by hair or clothing was considered less severe. Despite these negative cultural views of disability, individual 2399's social status was still high enough to ...

That involved wearing clothing made from natural fibers, lining sample bags with foil, and using custom-blown glassware for filtering the samples. Humans produce a lot of microplastic waste.

Photo by Chip Clark, courtesy Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History. Emerald’s lush green has soothed souls and excited imaginations since antiquity. Its name comes from the ...