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.

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 ...

Illustration by ZME Science/Midjourney. In the heart of the Yucatán more than a thousand years ago, a group of Maya astronomers, known as daykeepers, tracked the movements of the Moon with such ...

Leadership crises are the order of the day in boardrooms and governments and, thus, the ancient wisdom of Valmiki's Ramayan gives a vast perspective on mentorship that is still relevant today. This ...

It’s a bustling predawn morning in Black Rock City. Darkness clings to the sky as thousands of bikers zoom across a dusty alkaline flat in search of a sunrise set, hoping to outpace the gash of ...

I've been living in Mexico recently where I've learned to speak the Yucatec Maya language, the indigenous language of the Yucatan peninsula which has been spoken in this region for thousands of years.