Mesoamerica Archive

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Like many ancient civilizations, the ancient Maya profoundly appreciated board games. Recent excavations in Mexico by archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One of the most intriguing archaeological pre-Columbian sites is Teotihuacán, which scientists still know relatively little about. Who were the people who built

Jan Bartek - Ancient Pages.com - Jade was held sacred by many ancient civilizations. The green stone has been found in many ancient tombs and placed there as

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Most ancient civilizations studied celestial objects and were skilled astronomers. Countless archaeological examples have provided evidence ancient people were often more advanced than

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The long-held consensus that the more populated and "civilized" a society, the more complex their communication may be more nuanced than previously thought.

A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com  - Atlantean statues of Tula are four anthropomorphic characters representing ancient warriors who followed a Mesoamerican god king Quetzalcoatl, a feathered serpent. Quetzalcoatl represented

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the earliest civilizations that developed under the Olmec influence is represented by an unknown complex of ruins located near Mexico City

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old stela known as Stela 87 was recently found by archaeologists working at the Tak'alik Ab'aj archaeological park in El Asintal, 85

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Toltecs, an ancient Mesoamerican culture lived in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico. The Aztecs refer to the Toltecs as their intellectual and cultural predecessors. We must

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - It is an ancient mystery that remains unsolved even today. Our quest for traces of advanced ancient lost civilizations takes us to Mesoamerica where

AncientPages.com - Body modification was very important to several ancient civilizations. In Mesoamerica the Aztecs, the Maya as well as the Olmecs practiced extensive body modification often for ritual or ceremonial

AncientPages.com - While excavating a stone sanctuary in a pond on the side of a volcano east of Mexico City, archaeologists discovered what appears to be a 1,000-year-old mini

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Mixtec people called themselves the Ñuu Savi - "People of the Rain" and lived in three mountainous areas of present-day Oaxaca in Southwestern

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - To improve one’s body is something modern people do all the time and it should not come as a surprise that the ancient did

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Aztecs said they came from a mythical place called Aztlán.  The Aztecs were one of the world’s greatest civilizations and they created

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Known under several different names, Kukulkan (also Kukulcan), the Feathered Serpent, was one of the most important gods in Mesoamerica. Left: Ballcourt marker from

AncientPages.com - Many secrets are hidden in Teotihuacan, northeast of Mexico City, Mexico. Aztecs and the Toltecs, reached a place called Teotihuacan that was already enshrined in myth.

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Of all the lost civilizations of Mesoamerica, that of the Olmec is the oldest and the most perplexing. We know very little about the