PHOTOGRAPHED AT NATIONAL MUSEUM, GUATEMALA CITY “The attack ... glyph of the Snake kings shows up across the Maya region. CONACULTA, INAH, MEXICO “I think they changed the way politics were ...

If realized, this expansion would be a historic milestone in Mesoamerican connectivity, opening new doors for tourism, trade, and cross-border collaboration.

Archaeologists mapping the well-preserved Maya settlement of X’baatún found dozens of ruined structures dating back over 800 ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced plans to extend the Maya Train beyond Mexican borders, with the railway set ...

a Classic Maya site on the border between Mexico and Guatemala (left). Later, while examining photographs of the Piedras Negras stelae, or commemorative stone slabs, Proskouriakoff noticed ...

From witnessing active volcanoes and getting involved in community tourism to exploring stone cities that have stood for ...

Its location as a connection point between Mexico and Guatemala makes it a crucial hub for the development of this railway ...

Here we meet three generations of Maya women from the Ixil community, who live in the Quiché region of Guatemala. Image caption, This image shows a Maya elder leading a spiritual ceremony.

Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered an intricately carved stone they believe was used as a scoreboard for pelota, a ball game played by the Maya hundreds of years ago. The circular stone was ...