This book offers the first detailed comparative study of the seven most fully documented early civilizations: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Shang China, the Aztecs and their neighbors, the Classic ...

The ancient ... and Central America, dating as far back as 1200 B.C.E. (before the current era), and encompassed a host of ...

Mesoamerican civilizations like the Maya and Aztec developed intricate calendars and monumental architecture. Ancient Greece ...

The Aztecs may have deliberately used this effect in sacrificial rituals. Many ancient cultures used musical instruments in ritual ceremonies. Ancient Aztec communities from the pre-Columbian ...

This is called the "Calendar Round" and the number became important in Central American cultures. The 260-day calendar ... and the thirteen numbers represented their philosophy of thirteen directions ...

The exhibition, titled Light of the Sun: A Dialogue Between Ancient Shu and Inca Civilizations ... which was one of the largest in pre-Columbian America, the king was seen as a descendant of ...

Francisco Pizarro, conqueror of Peru in fact, becomes the personal fixer of the Inca king Atahualpa, ruler of most of Europe. The Aztecs are ... of the older Eurasian civilizations reached the ...