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 ...

Stories passed down by generations of fishermen off Mexico’s Baja California peninsula are the inspiration behind a new survival thriller movie featuring an 80-foot large-toothed monster. “The Black ...

Founded just over a decade ago, Houston-based Aperio, Music of the Americas is dedicated to promoting contemporary composers of the Americas. This past Saturday night at The MATCH, artistic director ...

Mesoamerican origins -- Maya agriculture -- Maya society -- Maya religion -- A Mayan temple -- Maya calendar and writing system -- Daily life aamong the Mayas -- Rise of the Aztecs -- Daily life in an ...

A roughly 3,400-year-old ball court in the mountains of southern Mexico has scored surprising insights into a game that later played a big role in Maya and Aztec societies. Excavations at a site ...

[Part 1] Aztec -- 1. The historical and geographical background of the Aztecs -- 2. The people -- 3. The Aztec "kings" and the directing classes -- 4. The achievements -- [Part 2] Maya -- 1. This ...

If you want to see what history looks like through Mayan eyes, or if you’ve ever wondered what an Aztec zombie’s life was like, then you’ve got to come to the Museum of Latin American Art next weekend ...

"Lost Caverns of Ixalan" incorporates Mesoamerican cultures, dinosaurs, vampires and pirates. 'Lost Caverns of Ixalan' centers Aztec, Olmec, Mayan culture in huge new 'Magic: the Gathering' set ‘Lost ...

(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 ...