The lawyer and children’s book author celebrates female representation in 'Maya’s Big Question,' just in time for Women's ...

Her landmark book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was among the first 20th-century autobiographies of a Black woman to reach a wide readership.

National Geographic archaeologist George E. Stuart reported in 1975 on the scientists who sought to decode the ancient language—and the looters who stood in their way.

It seems almost unbelievable. A 1,000-year-old Mayan manuscript might still predict solar eclipses accurately. The Dresden Codex, one of only four surviving Maya books, holds a sophisticated system ...

This video follows a grim chain of encounters and upheavals in the Yucatan, from early shipwrecked survivors to syncretic faith and the 1562 Mani purge that destroyed priceless Maya books. Yet out of ...

The team also extracted plant DNA from the burial of a high-status man. Testing showed that the grave contained significant amounts of DNA from two tree species whose bark was used to make clothes, ...

A roughly 3,000-year-old site in Mexico was built in the shape of a cosmogram that stretches for miles, a new study suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A 12 th century C.E. codex from Maya culture accurately predicts solar eclipses. The eclipse table in the Dresden Codex was a lunar calendar that ...

Marvel Comics is celebrating this year's Native American Heritage Month by spotlighting one of its premier Native American super heroes, Cheyenne and Mexican American warrior Maya Lopez, in Echo: ...