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

These and other questions involving the Maya people’s relation to their gods ... in the beliefs and world vision of the ancient Maya of Yucatán. Archaeologists had known that the Maya regarded ...

Chichén Itzá, "the mouth of the well of the Itzás," was likely the most important city in the Yucatán ... Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around ...

“For all of Eric Thompson’s important findings in many areas of ... a new picture of these people emerged. Mayan art and writing, it turned out, contained stories of battles, sacrificial ...

I think it's a very important ... when people joined the Christian communities in Rome, for example, they would be buried. This is not something anyone could take for granted in the ancient ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a ... “This is a story of empire – how important kingdoms reached out to control others,” he said. “This new find lends ...

For about half the people alive today, the story of where they came from just became clearer. For centuries, historians and ...