The term “Mesoamerica” refers to the geographical area where these early societies thrived with common traits even as they were independent. The oldest is the Olmec civilization, considered ...

Mesoamerica: During the 5th and 6th centuries BC, the ancient Olmec civilization was coming to an end in Mexico. At the about same time, the Mayan civilization was rapidly expanding in Honduras ...

The Olmec civilization, the first in Mesoamerica, offers valuable clues into the development of the rest of the region. Photograph by Richard Hewitt Stewart, National Geographic According to a ...

They were often offered for the construction of public plazas and monuments at Olmec sites and in other regions of ...

Linguists, archaeologists, and codebreakers have all tried to crack the Indus script and failed-what makes it such a complex ...

The international appeal of Mesoamerican art as rare exotic art ... analysis helped researchers hypothesise that they might be Olmec, but no provenance is available. And if Mexican museums ...