If you've ever visited Cancun or Playa del Carmen in Mexico, then you’ve likely heard about the Mayans. They are the indigenous culture that ruled southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras ...

The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) reported the discovery of three Maya frescoes during rescue work at ...

Only when local Maya learned to store water by digging chultunes ... Spanish for "place of the ceiba tree," Seibal had a checkered history. First inhabited in the Middle Preclassic Period around ...

Centuries earlier, had Maya priests waited in this very well to ... the cooperation of the National Institute of Anthropology and History. Examining the walls of the pool a few yards below the ...

With modern day Maya still living where their ancestors once did, these discoveries help them to recover and reconnect to the parts of their history that were so brutally destroyed by the invading ...

Encircled by thick jungle, Palenque is one of the most impressive and mysterious of all Mexico’s ancient Maya sites. Known by the ancient Maya people as Lakamha, and today a UNESCO World ...

Life is good for us for another 500 years or so until the Europeans arrive – that’s when the Maya civilisation begins to disappear. And all this? Well, it’ll be History. He tells us about ...

The puppets, unearthed in El Salvador, have movable heads, strange facial expressions and may have been dressed for ritual roles.

Maya are now teaching the written language to one another in workshops, while Maya schoolchildren are learning the glyphs along with the history of their ancestors.

This short film is from the BBC series, History of Early Civilisations - Maya. Through parodies of reality TV shows, this series introduces different aspects of the Maya civilisation. Devise a ...