Mesoamerican cultures shaped the history of Central America through remarkable achievements in architecture, science, and society. Among the most influential were the Maya, who thrived in present-day ...

Aztec and Maya civilizations are household names – but it’s the Olmecs who are the ‘mother culture’ of ancient Mesoamerica by: Karl Taube University of California, Riverside via The ...

These empires may be long gone, but their myths still echo through history. The Maya, Aztec, and Inca told stories of gods ...

Many scholars regard the Olmec as the “mother culture” of ancient Mesoamerica, a civilization where particular types of monumental architecture, sculpture and gods originated. Among the later Maya, ...

But the Maya and Aztecs were very different cultures, analogous in many ways to the Greeks and Romans. Like the Greeks, the Maya were the older civilization to the east.

Born in 1884, architect Robert Stacy-Judd worked during the Art Deco era, evoking Mayan and Aztec architecture in a style dubbed Mayan Revival. Stacy-Judd drafted plans for commercial buildings in ...

Everyday life of the Aztecs, Incas & Maya / by Neil Morris.; illustrated by Manuela Cappon, Luisa Della Porta, Andrea Ricciardi di Gaudesi Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Object Details ... Maya ...

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 ...