When the bishop speaks of people's cultural values, he is referring to the Mayan culture, embedded in ancient Mayan spiritual traditions. The present article aims to show how a blend of Catholic and ...

This occasion marks a time of renewal, unity, and hope - values deeply cherished in both Chinese and Honduran traditions. The ...

A national park in Belize has deep roots in Mayan healing traditions. Smoke curled around my body as Maria Garcia, a Yucatec Maya healer, walked around me in circles, swinging a pail of incense. I ...

Mayan culture, past and present, runs deep in Cayo, and I saw signs of it everywhere I went. One morning I paddled the Macal River, a meandering waterway the Maya navigated by canoe. I wandered ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Maya kingdoms vanished into history following an agricultural crisis created by severe, prolonged drought. But new research led by Brandeis anthropologist Charles ...

The Maya used their mathematical knowledge along with celestial observations to finesse a calendar created by the Olmec which is a culture from the Mexican Gulf Coast and to create monuments to ...

From left: ROBERT RAUSCH/The New York Times/Redux; Adrien Williams/Courtesy of Gaia Riverlodge and Belize Tourism From left: Sunrise over Elijio Panti National Park, in Belize; a cabana at Gaïa ...