Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

Historic downtown building blends Art Deco and Mayan Revival design elements, including the symbols that look like a binary ...

In a significant breakthrough at the San Isidro archaeological site in El Salvador, archaeologists uncovered five ancient ...

The Maya civilization, one of the most sophisticated pre-Columbian cultures, flourished across present-day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador for thousands of years. Emerging around ...

“LADIES AND GENTS I PRESENT MY PYRAMID.” He then introduced each of the women, along with their social media handles. “Say something nice or move on with your life,” he concluded his post.

Hosted by football player-turned television host Michael Strahan, “The $100,000 Pyramid” is a game show during which pairs of celebrity contestants play in a high-stakes word association ...

Now, a second excavation, this one carried out in 2022 on top of the ancient pyramid at San Isidro in ... known as the Middle Preclassic when nearby Mayan culture was rapidly changing and becoming ...

Szymański was the lead on the project, having spent much of the last 15 years researching and writing papers on Mayan culture ... puppets on top of the ancient pyramid at the site of San Isidro ...

But because the archaeologists found no human remains onsite, the puppets' location at the tallest pyramid at the site instead hints that they were used for public rituals, the archaeologists said.

These striking puppets suggest that Indigenous people in what is now El Salvador had rituals that were more connected to the rest of Central American culture than previously thought.

Recent research proposes that the megalithic site of Gunung Padang in Indonesia might be the oldest pyramid at 25,000 years old. This challenges the belief that advanced construction started after ...

Maya Wang is the associate China director at Human Rights Watch. Wang has researched and written extensively on a wide range of issues in China including the use of torture, arbitrary detention ...