A University of Calgary archaeologist has found evidence that the Classic Period Maya were trading live dogs over long distances between the northern Yucatan peninsula and central Chiapas regions. Dr.

Jade Skirt in AD732: Look at our beautiful city of Yax Mutul. I imagine our people will live here for hundreds of years. But who knows what the future holds? Jade Skirt in 1150: We now live further ...

I am Jade Skirt and welcome to my family’s farm, not everyone lives in the city you know. We live and sleep in one big room covered by a thatched palm leaf roof. There are no windows, just one open ...

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Archaeologists from the University of Houston have uncovered the tomb of Te K'ab Chaak, the first ruler of the ancient Maya city of Caracol and founder of its royal dynasty. This groundbreaking ...

Astrologer Lisa Stardust shares her insights on the Mayan system and how it captures the energy you were born into Getty If you think your birth chart says a lot about you, wait until you meet your ...

The Mayan Languages Preservation and Digitization Project promotes tools designed by and for Indigenous communities, like online glossaries and special phone keyboards Aurora Martínez | Staff ...

In a recent study published in the journal Ancient Mesoamerica, Dr. Dean Arnold and his colleagues, Joseph Ball, Laure Dussubieux, and Jennifer Tachek, examined 17 samples of Maya Blue from pottery ...

A team led by University of Houston archaeologists Arlen Chase and Diane Chase—a married couple about to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary—has discovered the fourth-century CE tomb of an ...

Caana, the central architectural complex at Caracol, Belize, uncovered by Diane and Arlen Chase in the 1980s. Credit: University of Houston Major discovery marks culmination of 40 years of work by ...

Two pottery vessels in the tomb had lids shaped like the heads of a coatimundi—a native animal called “tz’uutz’” in Maya. Later rulers even used the coatimundi as part of their names, showing that ...