When the Spanish conquered the Maya empire in the 16th century, they forced their new subjects to convert to Christianity and speak and write in Spanish. But long before the Maya used the Roman ...

In fact they’re not hills at all but ancient pyramids, left to decay after the collapse of the Maya civilization a millennium ... of the] Kaanul,” he says. “Before this we were anonymous ...

The quest to decipher Maya hieroglyphs began with the very Spanish invaders whose hegemonic ... create as complete a record as possible of the civilization's architecture and art.

Archaeologists scanning through jungle terrain stumbled on what could have once been an important Maya location ... after the height of the Maya civilization and before the arrival of the Spanish.

which was dominated by the Maya civilization before the Spanish conquest. “It allows us to appreciate much more clearly how the rituals, the pilgrimage sites and ultimately the great pre ...