Although 43.75% of the population in Guatemala self-identify as indigenous, travelers to the Central American country rarely get to taste native Mayan ingredients in the restaurants that cater to them ...

With a walk, ceremonies, dances, music, and a demonstration of the ancestral ball game, indigenous people commemorate this Saturday in a Mayan village in Guatemala the 500 years of “resistance” after ...

New research suggests that explanations based only on climate may not fully account for the major decline of the lowland ...

This photo released by the Guatemalan government shows two anthropomorphic sculptures that "represent an ancestral couple." - Guatemalan Ministry of Culture and Sports Archaeologists have discovered ...

Sitting atop the largest pyramid in the world in northern Guatemala’s ancient Mayan city El Mirador, I tried to imagine how the city below looked nearly 2,500 years ago. Standing nearby, the site’s ...

Editor at large Arnie Weissmann recently spent time in Tayasal National Monument, a work-in-progress excavation of a Mayan settlement near Lake Peten Itza.

Indigenous people take part in a protest against the construction of a Templo Santa Muerte in Cantel, Guatemala, on October 26, 2024. Thousands of indigenous Mayan people in Guatemala on Saturday ...

Archaeologists working in one of the most impenetrable rain forests in Guatemala have stumbled on a remarkable discovery: a room full of wall paintings and numerical calculations. The buried room ...