The Aztecs has about 200 deities — and in this article, we're uncovering the 13 most important Aztec gods and goddesses you ...

These empires may be long gone, but their myths still echo through history. The Maya, Aztec, and Inca told stories of gods who shaped the cosmos, demanded sacrifice, and fought battles far beyond ...

For more than 150 years, the ruins of the ancient Mayan civilization, long buried in the jungles of Central America and Mexico, have gradually yielded their secrets: an elegant and complex system ...

Aztec and Maya civilizations are household names – but it’s the Olmecs who are the ‘mother culture’ of ancient Mesoamerica by: Karl Taube University of California, Riverside via The ...

The film and a new comic book series draw from Aztec and Maya civilizations' entreaties to “be aware of what you are doing on the planet," says screenwriter Boise Esquerra.

Many scholars regard the Olmec as the “mother culture” of ancient Mesoamerica, a civilization where particular types of monumental architecture, sculpture and gods originated. Among the later Maya, ...

Though “Maya” deliberately doesn’t use the words Aztec, Mayan or Incan in order to ... His elaborate vision resembled graphically complex Aztec and Mayan glyphs. “A lot of people on the ...