Close-up view of a Mixteca-style mask decorated with turquoise mosaic from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution-National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). This material relates to a ...
The National Museum of Ethnology in the western university city of Leiden made the shock discovery after an intensive four-year study The Hague: An 800-year-old Mexican skull decorated with turquoise ...
Though scholars have long assumed that Aztec and Mixtec turquoise artifacts uncovered in Mesoamerica were imported from the American Southwest, a new isotopic analysis suggests these artifacts likely ...