To Masson, Delgado Kú, and their colleagues, Mayapan’s story contradicts the idea that the Maya disappeared, or even that the ...

I was on my own modest search for Chaak. Roaming the Yucatán Peninsula, I was looking for rituals and beliefs held by modern Maya that might help me understand their link to their glorious ancestors.

Known as the "White City," a nickname that refers to both the whiteness of its limestone buildings and the characteristic ...

"And I would be so happy to see a collective effort to help answer one of the questions posed by the community: how far away from Chichén Itzá can we still detect the genetic signature of its ancient ...

Eric Thompson's theory had been that the Maya wrote in rebus, in which symbols are used for whole words. A modern rebus of the phrase "I can see" might include pictures of an eye, a tin can ...

I like to photograph with my wife and, ideally, the rest of my family accompanying me. You have a book called The Modern Maya. What are some of your fondest memories from the Yucatán and living there?

Over the years people moved from villages to modern cities, making it difficult ... started to destroy the Maya cities and people. The Spanish were armed with artillery, steel swords and muskets ...

Maya Art & Culture explores the confluence of ancient and modern Maya culture through its people, art, archaeology, and cultural traditions. With guidance from targeted readings, content presentations ...

Maya people in the Yucatán Peninsula have prepared it this way since at least 400 AD. But people have abandoned these traditions, swapping pibs for modern stoves. More from Still Standing ...