Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

Carvings left on ball courts and ballplayer figurines reveal how the game was played, what players wore, and the importance of sport in Mesoamerican culture. From the clues these artists left ...

A 1,000-year-old altar from Mexico's ancient Teotihuacan culture has been discovered in the erstwhile Mayan city of Tikal in ...

In the 1960s, scholars hypothesized that it was “epi-Olmec,” a late language of the Olmec people, the most ancient known Mesoamerican civilization, which predated the height of Mayan ...

In fact they’re not hills at all but ancient pyramids, left to decay after the collapse of the Maya civilization a millennium ago. The site was a thriving settlement during the Classic Maya ...

Mesoamerica A historical region and cultural area that includes parts of North and Central America. Artefact A used item from the past that has survived a long time. Conquistadores A group of ...

Commonly referred to by experts as the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica, the Olmec civilisation ruled parts of modern-day Mexico and Guatemala between 1200 to 400BC. They built pyramids ...

testify to the influence of Teotihuacan -- an important site of cultural exchange and innovation in Classic Mesoamerica -- on Mayan civilization. Dated to between 400 and 450 AD, during the ...

testify to the influence of Teotihuacan -- an important site of cultural exchange and innovation in Classic Mesoamerica -- on Mayan civilization.