Ever wonder how a Mayan tribe would handle the sugary chaos of American candy? Join me in their remote village as I unleash ...

The word "chocolate" has its roots in the Maya term "Ka'kau" (meaning "heart ... (2000). Food of the gods: Cure for humanity? A cultural history of the medicinal and ritual use of chocolate.

Such a design resembles other representations of a deity known as the “Storm God,” more common in Teotihuacan than Mayan art ... jade and chocolate,” he said. “As far as Teotihuacan ...

Archaeologists have nicknamed this deity the Storm God ... the Maya world because they saw it as a place of extraordinary wealth, of special feathers from tropical birds, jade, and chocolate ...

The face itself looks a bit like other depictions of a Maya deity called the “Storm God,” with somewhat almond ... from tropical birds, jade and chocolate. As far as Teotihuacan was concerned ...

Famous for its iconic pyramid and temples, the ancient Maya city of Tikal is no stranger ... Tikal altar suggests it relates to the ‘Storm God’”, who was associated with rain, fertility ...

It closely resembles other depictions of a deity dubbed the 'Storm God ... Maya world because they saw it as a place of extraordinary wealth, of special feathers from tropical birds, jade and ...

These powers of central Mexico reached into the Maya world because they saw it as a place of extraordinary wealth, of special feathers from tropical birds, jade and chocolate. As far as Teotihuacan ...

European forms of the word might have been influenced by Mayan “chocol,” meaning hot ... Toxic lead and cadmium in yummy chocolate, the food of the gods? When 18th-century Swedish botanist Carolus ...

The story dates back to before the arrival of the Spanish, when ancient cultures revered chocolate as a gift from the gods. With Spanish ... the Olmecs vanished, the Maya civilization built ...