The Temple of Kukulkan In late February this year, I set foot on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula to explore the ancient Maya city ...

Belize may not be the first country to come to mind when you think of famous Mayan archaeological wonders. Sites like Ch ...

The Maya civilization had one of the most intricate religious systems in the ancient world. From powerful gods like the maize god and the rain god Chaac to the complex calendar cycles and ancestor ...

Understanding this calendar was an important step in understanding ... site and not greatly change our understanding of Classic Maya civilization. What changes it is the fortuitous discovery ...

they devised an elaborate calendar, charted stars and planets and invented the most complex written language in the Americas. And at the peak of their civilization, from a.d. 600 to 850, the Maya ...

Young adults of the International Lightning Class were tasked with growing their ranks, and in a flash, they were onto ...

Artists rendition of the hypotheitcal "Planet X" (NASA/JPL) The Nibiru story resurfaced in 2012, coinciding with the start of a new long cycle in the Mayan calendar. This fueled apocalyptic fears ...

The Mayan calendar was never meant to be a doomsday ... A broader sense of "End Times" sometimes concerns the rise and fall of civilizations. Several civilizations have encountered their own ...

Godwin Heights eighth-graders’ first appearance at a National History Day competition led to some stellar results. And ...