The Met spent eight months restoring the dolomite throne. Now, in an open letter, members of the Indigenous community are questioning the government's decision to extend the loan for an exhibition.

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. (CNN) — Archaeologists working in the ruins of Palenque, an ancient city in the ...

The milpa (a food garden based around maize crops that relies on ancestral techniques), the community kitchen, and assembly halls are places of learning for people of all ages in the Yucatán Peninsula ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A piece of artwork more ...

A Mayan city lost in the dense jungle of southern Mexico has been revealed. The discovery occurred in the southeastern state of Campeche, and archaeologists have named it Valeriana, after a nearby ...

When Washington, D.C. resident Anna Lee Dozier picked up a vase at a thrift store in Maryland five years ago, she thought it a faithful reproduction of a Mayan artifact. “It did look old to me,” she ...

Archaeologists, with the help of drones and Google Earth imagery, have discovered 4,000-year-old canals in Belize that were once used by the predecessors of the ancient Mayans to catch freshwater fish ...

Scholars show how multiple planet movements tie into the 819-day Mayan calendar. The 819 days of the calendar must be viewed across a 45-year time period to fully understand. The movements of all ...