Aztec duck-head pendants recovered from Tenochtitlán were made using volcanic glass called obsidian. - Mirsa Islas/Courtesy Proyecto Templo Mayor, INAH Hundreds of obsidian artifacts have revealed ...

Born around 1500, Malinche grew up south of the Gulf of Mexico where she learned Nahuatl and the now near-disappeared Oluteco language. Her early life was marked by tragedy when the Aztecs sold her as ...