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.

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

Maya clothes helped people identify between the richer and the poorer people in Maya society. Fabrics were an important part of religious beliefs and art. Women were the traditional weavers in ...

Maya people in the Yucatán Peninsula have prepared it this way since at least 400 AD. But people have abandoned these traditions, swapping pibs for modern stoves. More from Still Standing ...

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 ...