"Now is the time of shadows, the time when we must feel our way. It is the time when the earth itself seems embraced by death ...

In May 1562, Diego de Landa, the highest-ranking Catholic authority in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, received word that a large number of idols, along with human bones and deer meat, had been discovered ...

In a recent study, Ph.D. candidate Yasmine Flynn-Arajdal studied iconographic representations of children in the Classic (ca.

At the building site, videos shared on social media platforms showed a chaotic scene with workers sprinting from the worksite ...

Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

Avocados aren’t the most obvious fruit to inspire a devoted following. They resemble an odd-shaped egg with a reptile’s bumpy skin, their pale greenish flesh is slimy and is rarely cooked, and their ...

Recent discoveries in an archaeological site in Mexico sheds new light into the beginning of the Maya civilization, and how ...

One Catholic and one Muslim, they disagree on the role of religion in their work in Lebanon, but are united in their aim.

MEXICO CITY — Mexican artistic director Jorge Díaz used to have a unique selection of bedtime stories for his son. Setting aside well-known books like "Pinocchio," they read tales closer to home.

Acrobats from a Mexican theater company perform the show titled "Mortal Leap into Xibalba," which reinterprets a myth from a sacred Mayan book about creation and the journey to the underworld, in ...

The Bhagavad Gita teaches that the world is filled with Moh and Maya, meaning attachment and illusion. Many devotees seek guidance on how to live with clarity, purpose, and balance while walking ...

Finding the oldest Maya site ever documented was only the beginning of archaeologist Takeshi Inomata’s discoveries. After locating the Aguada Fénix site buried in the jungle of southern Mexico in 2017 ...