Mesoamerican Civilizations

The roots of the Zapotec trace back deep into the soil of central Mexico, beginning around 6700 BCE and flourishing until approximately 1200 CE.

Deep in the swampy lowlands of modern-day Veracruz and Tabasco, a people emerged around 1200 BCE whose true name has been lost to time.

A twelve-year-old boy inheriting a fractured kingdom rarely portends a golden age, yet the accession of Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I in July 615 CE initiated one of the most remarkable reigns in human history.

On a shallow, brackish lake in the Valley of Mexico, an extraordinary metropolis rose from the waters, constructed upon an island where the Mexica people established their home.

High in the central plateau’s Valley of Mexico, at an altitude of 2,240 meters, sits the oldest capital city in the Americas.