A Maya child, as young as seven years old, has been found to have worn jade “tooth gems,” a discovery that sheds new light on ...

Filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu is marking the 25th anniversary of his first film, Amores Perros, with a new book and ...

Archaeologists already knew that adult Maya had tooth inlays, but this is some of the first evidence that children also had ...

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Food magazine Bon Appétit has unveiled its 20 Best New Restaurants of 2025, featuring one acclaimed Minneapolis restaurant. Yia Vang's Vinai is one of only three Midwestern restaurants to make the ...

In the ancient mythology of the Maya, one story stands out for its cunning, courage, and clever defiance of death itself — the tale of the Hero Twins, Junajpu and Ixb’alanke. In the ancient mythology ...

Arizona has its fair share of place names that outsiders, and sometimes even locals, struggle to pronounce. If you’ve ever pronounced Prescott as “Press-scott” instead of “Press-kitt” or called the ...

GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA—Common within Maya culture was the practice of dental modification, which usually involved filing teeth into distinctive shapes, engraving designs, or drilling holes and ...

The idiosyncratic director behind films as diverse as ‘Aguirre, the Wrath of God’ and ‘Grizzly Man’ knows how to hypnotize chickens—and has no need for drugs. Ask Herzog how he became a filmmaker, and ...