When the Spanish conquered the Maya empire in the 16th century, they forced their new subjects to convert to Christianity and speak and write in Spanish. But long before the Maya used the Roman ...

Between the third and 10th centuries, the Maya civilization flourished across Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. At a sacred site called Chichén Itzá, sacrificial victims were painted blue and ...

Golden and Scherer believe the wall was built centuries before the Maya collapse. In earlier excavations near Piedras Negras in Guatemala, they also found small hilltop hilltop fortresses dating back ...

“Before this we were anonymous; Holmul was anonymous. And then, all of a sudden, we were in the middle of the most exciting part of Maya history.” The story of the discovery of the ...

Satellites are helping scientists spot more ancient Mayan ruins than ever before, which is no small feat considering how thick the forest is in the indigenous group's ancestral lands ...

Hello future people of the UK! I’m going to show you how the Ancient Maya live. But, to see that you’ve got to travel back 1000 years. Before your grandparents, before Queen Victoria ...

Before all the glyphs could be read aloud in the original Maya, researchers needed to complete Yuri Knorosov's phonetic decipherment. This began in 1981 when 15-year-old budding Mayanist David ...