In the later Maya civilization, the jaguar was believed to facilitate communication between the living and the dead and to protect the royal household.

Ancient mariners who sailed into ports long buried under the debris of later civilizations, ancestors over sixty generations from the past.

These shared the same basic food crops and technologies of the later Olmec civilization.

Nonetheless, Olmec society is thought to lack many of the institutions of later civilizations, such as a standing army or priestly caste.

Olmec influences continued to appear in many later Mesoamerican civilizations.

Defined as "later prehispanic civilizations" and typically dated from AD 1200 onward.

During later Greek civilization, bathhouses were often built in conjunction with athletic fields.

In fact, many of the later Mexican-based civilizations carefully built their cities and ceremonial centers according to specific astronomical events.

It was largely their work that would be passed on to later civilizations.

Greek culture had a very powerful influence on later civilizations, especially the Romans.