The discovery of the earliest known Maya Long Count calendar date on a crumbling stone monument in Campeche, Mexico, is shedding new light on how ancient Maya rulers used time to legitimize their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires ...

The discovery of a royal Maya tomb ranks among the most extraordinary achievements in modern archaeology. Hidden for centuries beneath temples and pyramids, these burials preserve remarkable evidence ...

A badly weathered stone monument from El Palmar in Mexico may hold theearliest known Long Count calendar date ever found in ...

Archaeologists have found a Maya stone palace that dates to more than 1,000 years ago, according to the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). It's likely that the Maya elite ...

We write today with heartbreaking news. Maya K. Peterson, associate professor of history known by so many in our campus community, died in childbirth on June 16. Her daughter with partner A. Marm ...

West of Cancún’s tourist-filled beaches, a network of ancient walking paths and disused railway lines has been transformed into the Camino del Mayab (the Maya Way), Mexico’s first long-distance trail.

Classic Maya emblem glyphs / Peter Mathews -- Prehistoric polities of the Pasion region: hieroglyphic texts and their archaeological settings / Peter Mathews and Gordon R. Willey -- An epigraphic ...

Walk into your local bookstore and you’re guaranteed access to a nearly endless array of candy-gloss covers, neatly arranged by genre and glinting enticingly from soaring shelves. For most, the ...