A 1,300-year-old Mayan altar at Copan reveals new interpretations suggesting that its carved hands conceal four dates from the calendar.

To help break down Mayan astrology, we spoke with renowned astrologer Lisa Stardust, who explains the foundations of the ...

Over in Southbank, a little place called Maiz y Cacao was also working to expand the city’s Mexican options. Open since 2022, ...

Mexican artistic director Jorge Díaz has created a unique stage adaptation of the Maya myth Popol Vuh. Inspired by bedtime ...

Mexico's colors range from warm to vibrant, and their stories chart the nation's history from ancient to modern.

Migratory birds that fill North American forests with spring songs depend on Central America’s Five Great Forests far more ...

Move over Machu Picchu and Stonehenge – these incredible but lesser-known sites and landmarks deserve much more attention.

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with strong hierarchies (kings, priests, and planners) could organize massive ...

It used to be thought that ancient Mesoamerican monuments were built and used predominantly by powerful leaders and ruling classes. Among the early Maya, however, the site of Aguada Fénix would have ...

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 ...

(CN) — For over a century, scholars have puzzled over the eclipse table in the Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving texts from the ancient Mayan civilization. Now, researchers John Justeson from ...

Archaeologists digging in Mexico's Palenque ruins have uncovered a mask believed to represent the 7th-century Maya ruler K'inich Janaab Pakal, commonly known a ‘Pakal the Great’ - one of ancient ...