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 ...

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 ...

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

Aside from adapting the Maya myth and directing fellow artists, one of Díaz’s jobs in “Mortal Leap into Xib’alb’a” is rigging ...

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 ...

The ancient Maya who populated the Yucatan Peninsula in the first millennium AD believed that there were three ways for the living to enter Xibalba, the world of the dead: through deep caves, through ...

The ancient Maya civilization, known for its intricate and highly developed society, flourished in Mesoamerica for thousands of years, reaching its zenith during the Classic Period (250-900 AD).

Hearts torn from chests, blood spilled on stone altars—these brutal offerings weren’t punishment, but devotion. In temples and cenotes, death fed the heavens. Barack Obama responds to Donald Trump's ...