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The National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA), in collaboration with the Government of Mexico, announced today it is facilitating ...
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Surrounded by a thick canopy of cedar and mahogany, some 1,500 individual structures make up the ancient complex, whose center ... gods. “Maya” is a 20th-century term for the civilization ...
The Maya civilization once stretched across present-day southeastern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador. At its peak, it had over 2 million people spread across its empire with ...
BLANCO IS THE DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AT THE GUATEMALAN MAYA CENTER, AN ADVOCACY GROUP FOR MIGRANTS PROVIDING THINGS LIKE FOOD, EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND LEGAL ASSISTANCE. SHE SAYS THERE ARE MANY WHO ...
Across centuries, it grew into one of the largest and mightiest cities in the loosely affiliated network of municipalities that made up the Maya civilization. At its peak, which approximately ...
A Sherlock Holmes-style investigation has revealed the ancient method for the stunning pigment known as Maya blue — and it's different from a previous method uncovered nearly 20 years ago by the ...
A pair of chert points found alongside human skeletons in a cave in Belize may represent the first known tattooing needles ever discovered from a site linked to the ancient Maya civilization.
"It's increasingly clear that this was an extraordinary period of turbulence at Tikal," study coauthor Stephen Houston, an expert on Maya civilization ... just outside the center of Tikal, a ...
The Guatemalan-Maya Center (TGMC) said it was the target of hateful vandalism on May 3, staff arrived at the center to find "F*** U" spray-painted above their community garden, following a hate ...
VALDOSTA, Ga. (WCTV) - Valdosta State University is planning to use $5 million from the state to renovate its Education Center. The university says the renovation is much needed. Dean of VSU’s ...
The DuPage Regional Office of Education is moving its Center for Student Success, which provides alternative education programs to students in the county, from its current location in Addison to ...