MEXICO CITY – The end of the current era in the Mayan long-count calendar is approaching. With dancing, incense and rituals designed to thank the gods, the Mayans performed the "New Fire" ceremony ...

It may not have been “Dancing With the Stars,” but it was dancing under the stars -- or at least the rudiments of dance -- when the Ballet Moderno y Folklorico de Guatemala presented “The Spirit of ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers ...

A team of Polish archaeologists diving in a possibly sacred lake in northern Guatemala has recovered hundreds of Mayan artifacts, including ceremonial bowls and obsidian blades that may have been used ...

Ritual killing was a common part of religious sacrifice in the ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá. For decades, media depictions cast the victims of these acts as young women and adolescent girls. In ...

Archaeologists studying the ruins of an Ancient Mayan city of Yaxnohcah, on the Yucatán Peninsula in southeastern Mexico, found evidence of at least four psychedelic or medicinal plants that were used ...