the question has long interested both biologists and anthropologists who wonder how and why cacao became so important to ancient Mesoamerican civilizations such as the Maya and Aztecs, both of ...

Incredibly, a place in El Salvador survived the near annihilation and still contains well-preserved remnants of an ancient ...

Archaeologist have found a Maya complex in northern Guatamala that included astronomical observatories, pyramids, and complex ...

Khipus are knotted-string devices that were used in the Inca Empire for communication and for recording information. Khipus are little understood, in part because most khipus are in museum ...

the dominant language of the Inca empire. She earned her Ph.D. at Yale in 1994; one of her professors was Michael Coe, who helped decipher the hieroglyphs of the Mayan empire. His success inspired ...

The Aztec civilization is one such iconic ancient mesoamerican ... What it’s about: Apocalypto takes place in Yucatán around the year 1502 while the Mayan civilization is undergoing rapid decline. The ...

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Mexican authorities are extremely restrictive when it comes to access to ancient Aztec, Mayan and other archaeological sites. Since COVID, the pyramids have been cordoned off and access to them ...

The discovery also sheds light on how the Aztec society evolved — introducing more standardized religion and control before the empire fell in 1521 — by showing how obsidian use changed over time.