From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, ...

The National Museum of Mexican Art is working in collaboration with the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and ...

A Chicago family purchased the artifact, a limestone frieze that was most likely once part of an ancient Mayan building, in a ...

A Chicago family purchased the artifact, a limestone frieze that was most likely once part of an ancient Mayan building, from ...

Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

Mexican cultural authorities have filed a lawsuit against MrBeast after the YouTube promoted his snack brand at an ancient Mayan site.

Today, more than 30 Mayan languages exist and are spoken by at least six million people worldwide. Although some, like ...

Among the rocks and marine fossils, scientists have found fossilized pollen from the Late Cretaceous and Early Paleocene periods that reflects changes in the surrounding ecosystems. The pollen reveals ...

A spokesperson for MrBeast told Newsweek that it is "unfortunate that this has turned into a political issue." ...

Caves, she learned, were a recurring motif in ancient Maya art and literature: They were painted on the sides of ceramic vases, cited in songs and poems, and carved into stone monuments. “The Maya ...

“For the Classic Maya, in many ways, clothing defined personhood,” says Alyce de Carteret, a fellow in Art of the Ancient Americas at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “Numerous aspects ...