Guatemala is home to six institutions of multi-ethnic higher learning whose mission is to pass on ancestral lessons and ...

(light music) Our next stop was an ancient Maya ceremonial center and one of the most visited architectural sites in Guatemala. And it's easy to see why? The site is enormous and the buildings ...

Evidence indicates that the site was first settled as early as the fifth century A.D. but was apparently abandoned thereafter. Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain ...

The ancestral Mayan culture pays tribute to its ... This is an archeological site, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, located in Petén, Guatemala. Visitors have the opportunity to tour a large city ...

In the wilderness of southern Belize, one man is on a mission to conserve and commemorate the ancient Maya way of life, ...

also in Guatemala’s western highlands. “It has been documented ethnographically that many cofradías used the traditional ...

McKillop is a professor in LSU's Department of Archaeology & Geoscience. Her work focuses on archaeological field research on ...

Thanks to the indigenous populations of Guatemala, its cultural heritage has survived for ages. Today, one may still witness traditional Mayan pole flyer dancing—known in Spanish as "El Baile del Palo ...

Guatemala and Israel boast a long friendship dating to the formation of the Zionist state. Their shared histories of violence ...

Whether a prospective student speaks Spanish, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Arabic or Mam — a Mayan language used in parts ...