A new paper in the journal Child Development shows how some aspects of family interaction among Indigenous people in Guatemala have fundamentally shifted with rapid globalization, yet families have ...

Girls sit for hours on flower altars in this ancient tradition. A young girl does her part to celebrate the festival of La Maya, which marks the arrival of spring in Colmenar Viejo, Spain.

Pupils are introduced to a range of traditional Maya jobs in this entertaining reality TV parody that offers insight into a range of typical careers for Maya men and women. King Chan Chak K’Ak ...

Known as the "White City," a nickname that refers to both the whiteness of its limestone buildings and the characteristic ...

The jaguar is a significant figure in Mayan and other traditions with the ability to cross between worlds; the day and the night, the living and the dead, our world and the underworld where ...