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 ...

In the Aztec mythos, Huitzilopotchli sought revenge on his sister Coyolxauhqui for attacking their mother, throwing her head ...

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.

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 ...

Patolli is an ancient Mesoamerican game played by the Maya and Aztecs since roughly 250 A.D. for “leisure, gambling, or ritual practices,” according to a 2021 study published in the journal ...

“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 ...