The Aztec, Olmec, and Maya of Mesoamerica are known to have made rubber using natural latex—a milky, sap-like fluid found in some plants. Mesoamerica extends roughly from central Mexico to ...

“Everyone knows what happened to the Aztec civilization after the Spanish arrived … These powers of central Mexico reached into the Maya world because they saw it as a place of extraordinary ...

Unlike the Maya, Mesoamerica's other pre-Columbian powerhouse, the Aztec are exclusively identified with Mexico, and today it spares no opportunity to mythologize them. In the center of the ...

They lived in the Maya Region and interacted with neighboring civilizations, such as the Aztecs and Olmecs, throughout their long history. The Maya never formed a traditional empire like the Incas ...

Against all odds, this ancient game survived the rise and fall of the Olmec, Maya and Aztec civilizations, not to mention the devastation wrought by the Spanish Conquest. Yet today ulama faces ...

In episode #2252 of The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan delved into European colonizers' catastrophic impact on Mayan and Aztec civilizations, notably by introducing devastating diseases.

Mexican Mother's Day lands just before American Mother's Day this year. Here's everything to know, including celebrations in Southern California.

The consumption of chocolate, in liquid form, dates back almost 5,000 years to Mayan and Aztec cultures. It was originally a cold, bitter brew of cacao mixed with water and spices. Aztec noblemen ...

Much of Indigenous Maya and Aztec ideology is also centered around femininity, with various female deities like Ixchel at the center of the belief system. The National Retail Federation and ...