A German tourist was arrested and attacked by locals after he illegally scaled the side of the Temple of Kukulcan in Yucatan, ...

The Mayan people’s struggle to keep their ancestral land has been described as “the fourth conquest” and like “fighting a ...

With one of the most broad and diverse influences over Maya culture, Itzamná Mayan god is considered the supreme god. The Kukulkan Mayan god is arguably the most prominent and most well-known ...

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

Image caption, Maya people were very clever. They invented the most well-developed system of writing in Mesoamerica, calendars that helped them to farm crops throughout the year and built cities ...

Hopefully you will now tell it too. From around 1517 - 1697 Spanish invaders (conquistadores) started to destroy the Maya cities and people. The Spanish were armed with artillery, steel swords and ...

Hundreds of Indigenous Mayan people in Guatemala ushered in the new year according to their calendar with a spiritual ceremony at the sacred Mayan site of Kaminaljuyu, in Guatemala City, on Tuesday.

Indigenous Mayans in Guatemala have called for a halt on multinational companies coming to their communities and extracting ...

“Tikin Xic” means “dried fish” or “dried fish with fins” in the Yucatecan Mayan language ... covering Hispanic food and Latino culture trends. She previously worked as a reporter ...

The incident was captured on video by a visitor who filmed the man as he raced up the steps of the Temple of Kukulcán at Chichén Itzá. Onlookers shouted insults and demanded he come down as he scaled ...