Skeletons buried near the ancient Maya city of Copán have revealed new clues about the collapse, but not total decimation, of the Maya civilization. A study of the genomes of seven people from ...

I've been living in Mexico recently where I've learned to speak the Yucatec Maya language, the indigenous language of the Yucatan peninsula which has been spoken in this region for thousands of years.

Antonio Pichillá Quiacaín continues his ongoing exploration of the knot and its capacity for metaphor at Elizabeth Xi Bauer ...

Genomes from ancient Maya people reveal collapse of population and civilization 1,200 years ago For decades, scientists tried to decode the precise method of manufacturing Maya blue, but they did ...

The ancient Maya were a group of Mesoamerican Indigenous people who developed one of the most advanced societies in history, which such achievements as a complex written language and amazingly ...

An ancient Maya city might seem an unlikely place for people to be experimenting with proprietary chemicals. But scientists think that’s exactly what happened at Copán, an archaeological ...

Genomes from ancient Maya people reveal collapse of population and civilization 1,200 years ago. Secret of ancient Maya blue pigment revealed from cracks and clues on a dozen bowls from Chichén ...

A new analysis of ancient DNA from the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico challenges long-held misconceptions about the victims of ritual sacrifice.

Thousand-year-old DNA from Chichén Itzá offers eye-opening details of the religious rituals of ancient Maya. By Freda Kreier In the spring of 1967, workers building a small airport behind ...

The ancient Maya were a group of Mesoamerican Indigenous people who developed one of the most advanced societies in history, which such achievements as a complex written language and amazingly ...

The ancient Maya nose ornament found at Palenque in the state of Chiapas, ... The ancient people of Palenque sought to reproduce the head of this deity through intentional cranial deformation, ...

What this analysis revealed could not only rewrite our understanding of Maya sacrificial rituals, but also raise new ...