For centuries, the decline of the Maya civilization has remained one of history’s most compelling enigmas. At its height ...

Maya civilization has once again amazed researchers with a groundbreaking archaeological revelation that challenges our understanding of ancient Mesoamerican society. Hidden beneath the dense jungle ...

The ancient Maya developed one of the most sophisticated systems of timekeeping in the ancient world. Unlike many other ...

What is believed to be a council house built more than 1,000 years ago sheds light on how Maya systems of governance shifted ...

CENTRAL BELIZE – Things have changed since I was last in Belize in 2018, when I excavated the ancestral Maya pilgrimage site Cara Blanca. Thousands of acres of jungle are gone, replaced by fields of ...

Archaeologists have found a Maya stone palace that dates to more than 1,000 years ago, according to the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). It's likely that the Maya elite ...

We write today with heartbreaking news. Maya K. Peterson, associate professor of history known by so many in our campus community, died in childbirth on June 16. Her daughter with partner A. Marm ...

THIS brief history of the Mayas should do much in helping to stimulate interest in the archæology of Central America. Notwithstanding the fact that one British and several American expeditions are now ...

Nikki Giovanni weighs in on Black history, fried chicken, Maya Angelou and why she will probably never write about the Capitol Riots. Like most people during the snowstorm that wiped across the nation ...