The Aztec, a collective of Mesoamericans who thrived from the 14th to the 16th centuries, were the inheritors of ancient ...

From the soil of the jungle, a massive stone face weighing 20 tons emerged. The people who carved it disappeared without ...

Chocolate has been providing a sugar high to humans for centuries, enough to inspire them to build monuments too. A new ...

In the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution, a perilous 1925 expedition into the remote Tuxtla mountains brought explorers ...

XALAPA.-Nearly four decades after one of the most extraordinary discoveries in Mesoamerican archaeology, objects recovered from the sacred Olmec site of Cerro El Manatí are being brought together ...

Mexico is home to 68 officially recognized Indigenous languages, spoken by nearly 7 million people, including Mayan and Náhuatl. Yet, despite their historical significance, many of these languages are ...

The Yucatán Peninsula is home to hundreds of ancient pyramids, a testament to the ingenuity of the illustrious Mayan civilization. While these pyramids are impressive today, in their time they would ...

A new archaeological discovery suggests that people in present-day Georgia have feasted with cacao for 1,000 years ...

For decades, one question has nagged at specialists in ancient Mexico: did Teotihuacan — the city that dominated central ...

Teotihuacan glyphs found in a Mexican cave reveal ancient warrior rituals at Chalcatzingo, dating back over 1,500 years, ...

This episode delves into the Olmec civilization that flourished from 1200–400 BCE along Mexico’s Gulf coast. From monumental stone heads to complex trade networks, we examine how their art, religion, ...

While walking around campus students might find themselves face-to-face with these uniquely decorated giant heads. Twenty-five fiberglass sculptures inspired by the enormous heads of the ancient Olmec ...