The civilization thrived in what is now southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and Honduras. In the 16th century, the arrival of the Spanish resulted in the conquest of the last ...

This lost city of Los Abuelos is in the Maya Biosphere nature reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Maya), about 13 miles from Uaxactun, Guatemala. It was found by Guatemalan and Slovak archaeologists in ...

Cortés has given way to Netanyahu, Putin, and Trump. A new age of conquest is upon us. Boys watch smoke billowing during Israeli strikes east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 13, 2024 ...

One of the most common answers they have given is the Baile de la Conquista, or Dance of the Conquest, which dramatizes the invasion of Guatemala by the Spanish, focusing on Tecún Umán, the ...

Consider the Spanish conquest of the Americas alongside Israel’s assault on Gaza. In many ways, the two events, separated by half a millennium, are incomparable. The first was continental in ...

The text specifically chronicles the mythology and history of the K’iche’ Maya people of Guatemala which was one of the many groups of Mayan peoples. Popol Vuh is a creation narrative that predates ...

The book’s central theme is “the New World’s long history of ideological and ethical contestations”. Grandin begins with the horrors of the European conquest of the Americas, resulting in ...

An ancient Mayan altar has been unearthed in the heart of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old city in Guatemala, by international scholars.The discovery provides new clues about a dramatic period of Mayan ...

In the 1990s, while writing his dissertation on the history of Guatemala, ... all the way from the Spanish conquest to the present of both North and South America.

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