Archaeologists working in one of the most impenetrable rain forests in Guatemala have stumbled on a remarkable discovery: a room full of wall paintings and numerical calculations. The buried room ...

Meso Maya turns 13 on Aug. 16, and it’s not just any anniversary for the restaurant specializing in interior Mexican cuisine. In Mayan cosmology, the number 13 represented the beginning of a whole new ...

Under an earthen mound deep in the Guatemalan rainforest, archaeologists have discovered what they say is the earliest evidence to date of the sophisticated astronomy and time-keeping rituals of the ...

Many Americans are confident that the world isn't really going to cease to exist on Friday, Dec. 21, the day of the supposed Mayan apocalypse. Still, plenty of people around the world are taking ...

In spite of the wealth of available cultural and archeological information as well as general interest in the Mayans, little is known about their genetics. In this study, for the first time, we ...

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

Archaeologists have stumbled on a room full of wall paintings and numerical calculations in the buried ninth century city of Xultun. The room was... Mayan Artwork Uncovered In A Guatemalan Forest ...