Keywords Maya civilization, ancient history, architecture, agriculture, ceremonial centers, decline, Spanish conquest, religious practices, archaeology More for You Ernst doubles down on Medicaid ...

They did not speak English or Spanish. They spoke an indigenous Maya language called Mam. Jimenez says his sister was the first from their community of Todos Santos in Guatemala to migrate to the ...

Prior to the Spanish invasion in the early sixteenth century, Chajul and the other lands of the Ixil Maya were subjugated by their more powerful neighbors to the south, the K’iche’ Maya. The ...

By the time the Spanish made contact with the Maya in the early 1500s, the civilization’s peak (in terms of sheer scope) had long passed. Scholars debate the reasons for this.

The roots of Maya culture can be traced to around 2600 B.C. Maya states later extended across Central America until their defeat and colonization by the Spanish in the 16th century A.D.

The Maya, Toltec, and Aztec people started cultivating the fruit of the cacao tree more than 3,000 years ago. Considered the “food of the gods,” the chocolate-making tradition originated in ...

Maya sources tell a story of a man named K’uk’ulkan (feathered serpent) who came from the west and established his capital at Chichén Itzá. ... (Spanish for the “castle”).