The discovery at the Maya site of Ucanal in Guatemala “marked a public dismantling of an old regime”—a rather pivotal moment ...

Mayan art and writing ... 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 the Maya created great artwork ...

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It’s increasingly clear that this was an extraordinary period of turbulence at Tikal,” said Stephen Houston, who co-authored ...

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There have been several theories posited over the years, some of which we will run through here. To think of the Mayans as ...

With pristine national parks, glorious coastline and rich indigenous culture and history, what’s not to love about Central ...

Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, a global team of ...

Oppression studies dictates that Western values, culture, and even science aren’t any better than others’, and since they’ve ...

Godwin Heights eighth-graders’ first appearance at a National History Day competition led to some stellar results. And ...