Antonio Pichillá Quiacaín continues his ongoing exploration of the knot and its capacity for metaphor at Elizabeth Xi Bauer ...

Archaeologists have long thought that monumental architecture—large, human-built structures that emphasize visibility—were products of societies with power structures, including social hierarchy, ...

Researchers recently uncovered a massive ancient Mayan city, nestled below the dense rainforests of northern Guatemala, an ...

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A page of a historic Mayan manuscript, which depicts the Mayan calendar (Credit: Getty Images) Immigrants from Mexico and Central America are taking their ancient languages to new territories ...

Turns out, it’s way cooler than that! The calendar is actually a brilliant system that tracks time, the movements of the sun, moon, and planets, and even helps predict eclipses.

The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but recent research shows how it matches up to planetary cycles over a 45-year span. That’s a much broader view of the ...

At its height, the ancient Maya civilisation comprised 40 cities across Central America, spanning southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador and Nicaragua. In the southern Mexican ...

by Fcb981 Among the inscriptions excavated from the ruins of the ancient Maya civilization, there are those with a period of 819 days, and the mystery of why the number 819 has bothered many ...

Previous research, on historic inscriptions, has found that the ancient Mayans used a calendar system known as the 819-day count. It has puzzled experts ever since.