The Olmecs
– Kings of the Stone Age
For nearly a thousand years, the Olmecs ruled over the swampy lowlands of Mexico’s Caribbean coastline, building a succession of magnificent ceremonial centers (like modern-day capital cities) amid the surrounding jungle.
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Emerging around 1200 BC, the Olmecs are famed for colossal stone sculptures depicting the heads of their rulers. They also invented Central America’s first known writing system, a sacred ball game, drinking chocolate, and a way of making rubber.
Find out about these remarkable but still mysterious people, who became the mother culture of Central America, influencing all of the region’s later civilizations, including the Maya and the Aztecs
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