If you've ever visited Cancun or Playa del Carmen in Mexico, then you’ve likely heard about the Mayans. They are the ...

A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it ...

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

Maya people in the Yucatán Peninsula have prepared it this way since at least 400 AD. But people have abandoned these traditions, swapping pibs for modern stoves. More from Still Standing ...

These and other questions involving the Maya people’s relation to their gods, their sacred city, and their extraordinarily accurate calendar were what the two archaeologists were investigating.

Image caption, Maya people were very clever. They invented the most well-developed system of writing in Mesoamerica, calendars that helped them to farm crops throughout the year and built cities ...

Beilin said she learned about the issues of technological expansion that threaten Indigenous Mayan people. Contemporary methodologies like genetically modified organism farming, industry expansion, ...

Known by the ancient Maya people as Lakamha, and today a UNESCO World Heritage site, the ruins of Palenque lie in the lush basin of the Usumacinta River in the modern Mexican state of Chiapas.

Hopefully you will now tell it too. From around 1517 - 1697 Spanish invaders (conquistadores) started to destroy the Maya cities and people. The Spanish were armed with artillery, steel swords and ...