Artwork takes center stage in Mayan decor, showcasing their reverence for nature, astronomy, and mythology. Incorporate ...

The UConn women's basketball team has a longtime rivalry with Notre Dame. Here are some of the best games and moments in the ...

A ceramicist retraces his Maya roots to recreate a long-lost pre-Hispanic pigment that survived for over a millennium.

Only when local Maya learned to store water by digging chultunes ... Spanish for "place of the ceiba tree," Seibal had a checkered history. First inhabited in the Middle Preclassic Period around ...

'The continuous spin-offs of maize into daily life is vast and complex. At some stage there will always be maize around, and it jumps any class barrier or identity. Everybody eats it and drinks it, ...

Maya Freelon, 'Rosa, a beautiful girl,' 40 ... Provoked by Deb Willis’ book “Reflections in Black,” the first comprehensive history of Black photography, including early, pre-emancipation ...

This is a Short History of the Maya. Written by Dan Smith. With thanks to David Stuart, Professor of Mesoamerican Art and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin.

WASHINGTON — Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s Yucatan peninsula. Using drones and Google Earth imagery ...

In the wilderness of southern Belize, one man is on a mission to conserve and commemorate the ancient Maya way of life, including its storied cuisine — one garden tour at a time. Native to the ...

Staying in Valladolid for 2-3 nights will give you a good sense for the area. Merida is the capital of Yucatán state and is steeped in both Mayan and colonial history and culture. You could spend a ...