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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Archaeologists in 2018 uncovered a massive network of Maya ruins hidden for centuries in the jungles of Guatemala. In 2022, human burial grounds and bullets from Spanish guns were discovered at a ...

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 ...

According to Spanish Franciscan friar Diego de Landa Calderon – most famous for his zeal in destroying Maya codices – the Maya painted human beings before forcing them onto an altar and ...