The site dates back to 1050 B.C., even before the Mayan writing system existed, according to Live Science. It exhibited ...

I wonder what those 15th-century monks who slaved away copying the Holy Scriptures by hand thought when they saw the first Bible produced on Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press. They had believed ...

Maya Hawke and Amybeth McNulty speak out on the importance of LGBTQ+ representation following a devastating GLAAD study.

Ancient Maya site that may have been built as a vast cosmic map, shedding light on early Mesoamerican beliefs and collective ...

The site's layout follows the solar movement and “is comparable to, or even greater than, those of later Mesoamerican cities.” ...

From cradle to late life, the godmother of punk remembers it all — including, especially, her life with the late Fred “Sonic” ...

A roughly 3,000-year-old site in Mexico was built in the shape of a cosmogram that stretches for miles, a new study suggests.

There are hundreds of caves in Belize that served as portals to what the Maya called Xibalba—home to ancient death gods, rituals, and extraordinary relics left behind. Accessible only by kayak or ...

In my book, Olmec Language and Literature, I explain how I deciphered the Olmec language. One of the most important documents used in my research was a Bi-lingual Mayan-Olmec text inscribed on a brick ...

The San Bartolo archaeological site shot into news in 2001 for the discovery of a new semi-hidden Maya city, reports the newspaper El Pais. The San Bartolo complex contained a pyramid that consisted ...

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 ...