Make the Sacred Mayan Journey this year! Join brave canoers in a pre-Hispanic ritual paddling from Mexico's Yucatan mainland ...

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.

Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

The Temple of Kukulkan In late February this year, I set foot on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula to explore the ancient Maya city ...

Beneath the spectacle of an action-packed vampire movie, the film has plenty to say about what is sacred and what is profane.

The Maya civilisation consisted of dozens of often ... The Ucanal evidence suggests that the new rulers removed royal skeletons (and sacred funerary regalia of iconic former Ucanal kings) by ...

The traditional Chinese version of the sacred Mayan text “Popol Vuh,” an endeavor undertaken as a partnership between Taiwan ...

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 ...

Tikal, one of the most powerful Maya city-states, became a rival in this network. Previous discoveries — such as the famous ...

The man was filmed running up the sacred temple’s stairs before a bystander whacked him with a stick as authorities placed him under arrest. The man was held in jail for 12 hours and fined 5,000 ...