The puppets, unearthed in El Salvador, have movable heads, strange facial expressions and may have been dressed for ritual roles.

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

Indigenous Mayans in Guatemala have called for a halt on multinational companies coming to their communities and extracting ...

Known by the ancient Maya people as Lakamha, and today a UNESCO World Heritage site, the ruins of Palenque lie in the lush basin of the Usumacinta River in the modern Mexican state of Chiapas.

Image caption, Maya people were very clever. They invented the most well-developed system of writing in Mesoamerica, calendars that helped them to farm crops throughout the year and built cities ...

Hundreds of Indigenous Mayan people in Guatemala ushered in the new year according to their calendar with a spiritual ceremony at the sacred Mayan site of Kaminaljuyu, in Guatemala City, on Tuesday.

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 ...