Mexican theme park and resort Xcaret must remove all references to Maya culture from its marketing and advertising campaigns.

— -- Newly discovered wall writings found in Guatemala show the famed Maya culture's obsession with cycles of time. But they also show calendars that go well beyond 2012, the year when the ...

Maya culture never really collapsed. It simply adapted to changing circumstances, writes Dr. Pablo Mumary.

Central to Maya identity are the Mayan languages, a family of around 30 distinct but related languages still spoken today, including K’iche’, Yucatec Maya, Q’eqchi’, Mam and Kaqchikel. These languages ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study uses genome analysis to show the decline, not erasure, of the ancient Maya civilization. Researchers compared the genomes of seven ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists scanning through jungle terrain stumbled on what could have once been an important Maya location. The team ...

For nearly half a century, Dr. Anabel Ford — archaeologist, research scientist, and director of UC Santa Barbara’s MesoAmerican Research Center — has dedicated her working life to questioning ...

The discovery, made in Quintana Roo of the Yucatan Peninsula, highlights the significance of beekeeping in Mayan culture. Archaeologists also found that these activities were more widespread than they ...

For more than 1500 years the basic technology of Maya weaving has remained the same. Contemporary Maya weavers still use the backstrap loom to create the dazzling textiles and clothing they wear today ...

A movement is underway to make pok-ta-pok, the world’s oldest team ballgame, the national sport Robin Catalano The pok-ta-pok revival began in Mexico in the mid-1900s, but it only picked up steam over ...

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 ...