Pre-Columbian Mexico was one of world's cradles of civilization, and home to civilizations including the Olmec, Maya, Zapotec ...

The first episode of the series focuses on the rise and fall of Indigenous empires in the Americas — the Olmec, Inca, Maya and Aztec, which predated the arrival of the Spaniards and other ...

from the Taino to the Olmec, Inca, Maya, Aztec, and more. Despite the fact that they were ultimately decimated by the conquistadors, these societies had an enduring influence on culture ...

A lot of what we know about them first sprang from the discovery of these monumental Olmec heads. Some of them are 11 feet high, and some of them are 50 tons," said Justin Witte, curator from the ...

Olmec Stone Head. Credit: Quite Peculiar, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Aztecs and the Mayans are the most well-known Mesoamerican civilizations, but, in fact, the Olmecs pre-existed them. The Olmecs were the ...

Archaeologists working in the Sandomierz-Mokoszyn area of Poland have exposed an extraordinary find: the first longhouse from the early Neolithic period ever found in the Sandomierz Upland. This ...

Educators will also teach visitors the history and science of how chocolate has been cultivated by multiple groups, including Olmec, Maya and Aztec people. Rodriguez thinks visitors will be ...

The Olmec were an early Mesoamerican civilization that existed during the Formative period (1800BCE–300CE). While they are often associated with producing colossal heads, they also engaged in ...

Cacao beans held great prominence in the daily lives of Mesoamerican Indians. According to the Mayan and Mexica religions, cacao had divine origins as the god Quetzalcoatl discovered cacao. Cacao ...