Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

A team of archaeologists has uncovered asignificant find in Tikal, Guatemala. This altar, which was buried under the jungle ...

The great Maya civilisation collapsed not long after ... their uses and purposes and whole history so entirely unknown, with hieroglyphs explaining all but perfectly unintelligible, I shall ...

Only when local Maya learned to store water by digging chultunes ... Spanish for "place of the ceiba tree," Seibal had a checkered history. First inhabited in the Middle Preclassic Period around ...

Though Tikal may have been settled by at least 600 b.c., most of the city’s edifices were built during what is called the Classic period of Maya history, from a.d. 250 to 900. It was a time when ...

Teenager Maya Joint has broken a record held by Australian tennis great Ash Barty by becoming the youngest Aussie to win a ...

The older Emilio transmitted to the younger his keen interest in Guatemalan history, and they both paid close attention to ongoing excavations in and around the Maya Biosphere Reserve. As María ...

Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern ... anthropology, and history of art and architecture at Brown, who co-authored the paper.

Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work ...

Books about the Holocaust, civil rights, feminism, racism, and Maya Angelou‘s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were recently removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s ...

In a thrilling display of skill and determination, Australia's teenage tennis sensation Maya Joint has made history by breaking one of Ash Barty's records. On her debut at the Madrid Open, Joint ...

UConn freshman Sarah Strong continued her stellar campaign with the Huskies on Monday, March 31, during the Elite Eight matchup against No. 1 seed USC Trojans. With her timely production, the No.