Centuries before Monopoly, there was Patolli, a high-stakes Mesoamerican game of strategy and luck where players wagered ...

Acrobats from a Mexican theater company perform the show titled “Mortal Leap into Xibalba,” which reinterprets a myth from a ...

To help break down Mayan astrology, we spoke with renowned astrologer Lisa Stardust, who explains the foundations of the ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with ...

The discovery of a carved game board in a Maya compound has given archaeologists a rare, almost cinematic glimpse of everyday ...

Every year, millions of tourists flock to Chichen Itza to marvel at the ancient architecture and learn about the Mayan culture. Sacrificial rituals were common at the famous site. Over the years, ...

The history of the ancient Maya board game patolli gained a new twist when archaeologists discovered a game board embedded in ...

The passage of time and improvements in technology mean that things that were thought to be immutable become a reality and, ...

A profound mystery surrounding the ancient Mayan calendar might finally have been solved. Previous research, on historic inscriptions, has found that the ancient Mayans used a calendar system known as ...

I am aboard the cruise ship “Yorktown,” once again. Last summer we took an amiable crowd of National Review and American Spectator readers on a tour of the Great Lakes. This winter we have taken ...

Pots with fancifully molded eyes, noses and mouths were one of the tip-offs. Adrian Chase already had a growing sense that Maya society wasn’t quite what it’s been traditionally portrayed as: powerful ...

New study uncovers the forces that shaped and later brought down ancient urban centers, and shows how these patterns are ...