If you are sneezing this spring, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, specks ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

Summer is, perhaps counterintuitively, the season when many of us find ourselves with our nose constantly in a book. Warm ...

It would be too easy and too inaccurate to write these places off as strange anomalies — one-off quirks in a city filled with ...

The Aztec Empire may have ended centuries ago, but its presence is far from gone. It lingers in temple ruins, place names, ...

Archaeologists working in northern Guatemala (formerly the Mayan city of Dos Pilas) recently discovered fragments of more ...

Traditionally, excavations deep in the jungles of Mexico, Central, and South America are difficult at best and dangerous at ...

The UN Human Rights Committee found Thursday that Guatemala is responsible for violating the rights of multiple generations of Mayan Indigenous peoples who were forcibly displaced during the ...

Studierende des ‹Master in Landscape Architecture› der ETH Zürich haben sich in Guatemala mit der Ethnobotanik der Mayas ...

The Royal Ploughing Ceremony is held to read auguries that predict the farming conditions for the year ahead. As is usually ...

Researchers said the brutal human sacrifice rituals were likely intended to appease the Mayan rain god Chaac, but further studies, including DNA analysis of the bones, were needed to better ...