Explore the Popol Vuh, the ancient Maya creation story, one of the most important texts in the cultural heritage of the K'iche Maya people. The Popol Vuh offers profound insights into how the Maya ...

Ancient DNA from people buried up to 1,600 years ago in Honduras have revealed clues to the rise and fall of the Maya.

The ancient Maya were a group of Mesoamerican Indigenous people who developed one of the most advanced societies in history, which such achievements as a complex written language and amazingly ...

Suddenly, the vegetation thinned, revealing the jagged entrance of a gaping limestone tunnel heading underground. The air ...

Archaeologists have located Sak-Bahlán—the last city of the Lacandon rebels of Chiapas—in the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve ...

New research published in the journal Ancient Mesoamerica has revealed the origin of the elusive Maya Blue pigment. The Maya ...

The Mayan Languages Preservation and Digitization Project promotes tools designed by and for Indigenous communities, like online glossaries and special phone keyboards ...

Mayan doomsday prophecies have been depicted in some colorful ways on screen and online. Here´s what actual Mayans think about the so-called end of the world, and what they really do on that ...