The Classic Veracruz culture, which thrived around AD 300 to 1200, is not one of the most well known in Mesoamerica, but it was a vigorous centre of political and ceremonial development and a distinctive art style arose here that spread to other parts of Mesoamerica including the Central Highlands where the Aztec (Mexica) would later rise to prominence.One of the oldest cultures in Mexico, the Olmec thrived between 1500 BC and AD 400 and is thought to have the oldest writing system in the Western Hemisphere, albeit still undeciphered.
The Maya objects in this room are from Mexico but this culture, which is still very much alive, stretches through Guatemala, Belize and parts of Honduras and El Salvador.By around 1500, the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán had over 100,000 inhabitants, making it one of the largest urban centres in the Americas and the sixth most populous city in the world at that time.
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