Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

Centuries before Monopoly, there was Patolli, a high-stakes Mesoamerican game of strategy and luck where players wagered ...

Acrobats from a Mexican theater company perform the show titled "Mortal Leap into Xibalba," which reinterprets a myth from a ...

The history of the ancient Maya board game patolli gained a new twist when archaeologists discovered a game board embedded in ...

New study uncovers the forces that shaped and later brought down ancient urban centers, and shows how these patterns are ...

It used to be thought that ancient Mesoamerican monuments were built and used predominantly by powerful leaders and ruling classes. Among the early Maya, however, the site of Aguada Fénix would have ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with strong hierarchies (kings, priests, and planners) could organize massive ...

Archaeologists working at Naachtun, a Maya city between Tikal and Calakmul, have uncovered a unique fifth-century patolli ...

Researchers have deciphered a medieval Maya text, the Dresden Codex, revealing its sophisticated method for predicting solar eclipses. Instead of resetting the table at its end, the Maya initiated new ...

The discovery of a carved game board in a Maya compound has given archaeologists a rare, almost cinematic glimpse of everyday ...