Among the later Maya, for example, the gods of wind ... symbol that continued even into the 16th century with the Aztec. The most famous Olmec bedrock carving at Chalcatzingo is called Monument ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, inland Maya are not good watermen ... When the conquistador, Hernando Cortez, and his men began their approach to the Aztec capital, they landed in Veracruz, where Cortez’s chronicler ...

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 ...

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.

A new analysis of hundreds of obsidian artifacts from the Aztec Empire has revealed the vast trade networks that supplied ...

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 ...