Is your knowledge of the ancient Maya as extraordinary as their pyramids?

Archaeologists working in Mexico City have unearthed hundreds of obsidian artifacts dating back to pre-Columbian Mesoamerica ...

On a narrow stretch of shoreline across from the Gales Point cemetery, Jamal Galves and the rest of the team from the ...

Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

Discovered in 1920 by archaeological Manuel Gamio, the Great Pyramid of Cuicuilco was the most important structure of this lost ancient city of Mesoamerica, lost because it caught the full force of a ...

A family crop was found to be a common denominator. Their diet was primarily maize–or corn–a primary staple food for humans in Mesoamerica. Many civilizations believed human beings were ...

Archaeologists found that while the Mexica primarily used green obsidian, obsidian also came from at least seven other ...

The Brits formalized the game known globally as football—but its roots date back to ancient China and Mesoamerica. Giovanni Navaro Cornelio, 30, (left) and Arturo Sanchez, 32, play ulama in ...

Tamales tell the earliest stories of Latin American traditions and culture. Originating in Mesoamerica, this emblematic food first came to the table shortly after the inception of nixtamal in ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Ozymandias: Mesoamerica Great cities have stood in these jungles and highlands since time immemorial. Upstart tribes threaten the old balance.

Archaeological evidence has pointed to the first use of cacao in Mesoamerica about 3,900 years ago. Traditionally, archaeologists have assumed that Mesoamericans were the first not just to use ...