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 ...