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Food Fridays: Tabasco in the Age of Maya

It may be the end of one calendar era, but the people are still hungry. Tabasco has served as a crossroads for cultures and cuisine ever since the Olmec civilization advanced astronomy, calendar keeping, and other scientific activities that paved the way for the Maya reign.

"El gobernante" Olmec sculpture in Villahermosa. (Photograph by Jose Alejandro Manuel Garcia, Flickr)

You can have your history and your almuerzo (lunch), too, at the Carlos Pellicer Cámara Regional Anthropology Museum in Villahermosa, Tabasco’s largest city.

Here you can see Tortuguero Monument 6, one of the most famous relics in the Maya world. (Read more...)

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