Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Olmec culture deeply shaped later Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztecs. Danny Lehman/The Image Bank via Getty Images An ...

The discovery of colossal Olmec stone heads revealed the existence of a long forgotten civilization that shaped early Mesoamerica. From these early societies emerged the first Maya cities, massive ...

Origins and development of Mesoamerican civilization / Janine Gasco ... [et al.] -- Late postclassic Mesoamerica / Robert M. Carmack ... [et al.] -- The Mesoamerican world at Spanish contact / Robert ...

The ceremonial center of the ancient Zapotec city of Monte Alban. Photo by Arthur Joyce. A CU-Boulder anthropologist and a collaborator from Florida have won a $230,000 grant to examine the role of ...

Archeologists digging near Mexico’s Gulf Coast have discovered the earliest-known example of writing in Mesoamerica, pushing the date for the appearance of this cultural breakthrough back by at least ...

A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S., working with a colleague from France and another from Guatemala, has discovered a very large 2,000-year-old Mayan civilization ...

When you compare how movies and TV treat Mesoamerican culture and mythology to how they treat the Ancient Greek world, it’s not hard to see the difference. (Though we won’t get too deep into the ...

Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions. Chocolate was a big aphrodisiac for Mesoamerican civilizations and used for energy. The first earthquake detector is ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – An extremely important 1-ton sculpture, sometimes referred to by archaeologists as an “Earth Monster” or Monument 9, was repatriated to Mexico from a private collection in ...