Long before kids could snack on the wonder that is astronaut ice cream, the Inca were the first to use ... literally, in the Aztec Empire and the sapodilla tree, native to Mesoamerica and the ...

and spiritual practices designed to cleanse the body and appease the gods. Each of the “big three” pre-conquest civilizations—the Inca, the Aztecs, and the Maya—developed its own unique ...