With a walk, ceremonies, dances, music, and a demonstration of the ancestral ball game, indigenous people commemorate this Saturday in a Mayan village in Guatemala the 500 years of “resistance” after ...

Indigenous people take part in a protest against the construction of a Templo Santa Muerte in Cantel, Guatemala, on October 26, 2024. Thousands of indigenous Mayan people in Guatemala on Saturday ...

This photo released by the Guatemalan government shows two anthropomorphic sculptures that "represent an ancestral couple." - Guatemalan Ministry of Culture and Sports Archaeologists have discovered ...

The fall of the ancient Maya civilisation came gradually — as did the disappearance of its centres of power, each one slowly reclaimed by the creeping jungle. Mighty cities were lost for centuries, ...

Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political ...

A 1,000-year-old altar from Mexico's ancient Teotihuacan culture has been discovered in the erstwhile Mayan city of Tikal in Guatemala, providing further proof of ties between the two pre-Hispanic ...

For more than 1500 years the basic technology of Maya weaving has remained the same. Contemporary Maya weavers still use the backstrap loom to create the dazzling textiles and clothing they wear today ...

Centuries before Monopoly, there was Patolli, a high-stakes Mesoamerican game of strategy and luck where players wagered ...

In the dense rainforests of northern Guatemala, a team of Slovak and Guatemalan archaeologists has uncovered the remains of a Maya city believed to be nearly 3,000 years old, shedding new light on the ...

The Teotihuacan altar was found in what used to be a house in an elite residential complex at Tikal in Guatemala, situated in the jungle near the Mexico border ...