For centuries, the decline of the Maya civilization has remained one of history’s most compelling enigmas. At its height ...

Depictions of dogs in Maya art and archaeological finds point to a variety of possible roles in the ancient culture.

What is believed to be a council house built more than 1,000 years ago sheds light on how Maya systems of governance shifted ...

The ancient Maya developed one of the most sophisticated systems of timekeeping in the ancient world. Unlike many other ...

September 15, 2000 - World renowned poet Maya Angelou spoke to 2,000 people at the Lied Center in Lincoln on Sept. 15, 2000. Angelou told stories and shared poems written by herself and Black authors.

Tikal’s great plaza, at the heart of what was one of the most powerful city-states in the Americas, is surrounded by monumental structures: the stepped terraces of the North Acropolis, festooned with ...

UNDATED (CNN Newsource/WKRC) - The scorched bones of several adults, who were likely members of a royal lineage, were discovered by archaeologists excavating an ancient Maya pyramid. The discovery is ...

During a conference on August 12, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that workers from the Ministry of Culture’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) had found a ...

Archaeologist Stuart (The Order of Days) offers a thorough history of Mayan civilization drawing on recent leaps in research, including his own contributions to the deciphering of Mayan hieroglyphics.