In Guatemala, Lake Atitlan contains a fascinating ancient Maya settlement which has now been completely submerged, but was ...

First published in 1913 under title: A study of Maya art. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!482158 ...

The Yucatán Peninsula is a land where ancient history and raw geology meet. Beneath its flat limestone plains lie endless ...

Nestled in the jungles of the Yucatán, about 45 minutes from Valladolid, lies one of Mexico’s most visited archaeological sites—Chichén Itzá. Once a thriving Maya city with an estimated 35,000 ...

Scholars have long focused on Maya hieroglyphs, but a new interpretation of Altar Q challenges this. Linguist Rich Sandoval suggests that the hand positions of the 16 rulers may encode important dates ...

HANGZHOU, CHINA / ACCESS Newswire / October 16, 2025 / From October 18 to 20, the 3rd Liangzhu Forum will be held in Hangzhou ...

(Image credit: Gary Todd, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons) Centuries ago, Maya children as young as 7 had "tooth gems" — jade inlays in their teeth that likely symbolized social maturity or a rite of ...

Pioneer American anthropologist Henry Lewis Morgan (1818-1881) wrote that societies developed (or evolved) through three distinct stages: savagery, barbarism and civilization. Cambridge University ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...

MANILA, Philippines — Digital bank Maya has teamed up with Singapore-based financial technology firm Atome to channel P2.75 billion (about $48 million) in loans to Filipino consumers, to widen access ...

Even more exciting, they suggest that this writing records an early version of the Uto-Aztecan language family—a group of ...