The chocolate you know is 500 years old. What came before it was bitter, spiced with chili, served cold, and consumed for 3,000 years by civilisations that used cacao beans as currency and gave the drink to human sacrifice victims. Jean-Louis tells the full story.

Explore pre-Columbian America's civilizations, from Beringia's first arrivals to the Maya, Aztec, Inca, Cahokia, and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy before 1492.

멕시코 유카탄 반도의 깊은 정글 속, 고대 마야 문명의 숨결이 생생하게 살아있는 곳이 있습니다. 바로 유네스코 세계유산으로 지정된 치첸이트사입니다. 돌아가신 이의 이름을 딴 이 도시에서 가장 먼저 떠오르는 질문은 과연 무엇일까요? 화려한 피라미드 이면에 감춰진 그들만의 독창적인

A Maya scribe signed his math homework 1,245 years ago. Buried in a Xultun workroom, a formula tracking Venus and Mars closes with a name: White-chested Fox, the first known Classic Maya mathematician credited by name. #Archaeology #MayaCivilization #AncientAstronomy @Antiquity@archaeo.social https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-signature-at-the-back-of-the

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A family altar in the Maya city of Tikal offers a glimpse into events in an enclave of the city’s foreign overlords in the wake of a local coup. Archaeologists recently unearthed the altar in a quarter...

Discover how a massive Maya monument reveals ancient cosmic understanding. Read how they built the universe itself on Earth 3,000 years ago.

As a seven-year-old, Francisco Estrada-Belli was afraid all of history would have been discovered by the time he was old enough to contribute. The year was 1970 and he and his parents had come from…