More than 40% of the world’s languages are in danger of extinction and 28 of those are Mayan languages that are still spoken today, according to the Endangered Languages Project. Typically, older ...

As the Mayan civilization was in decline, a diligent scribe was working on the oldest book created in the Americas: the Grolier Codex. The book, which contains personified images of the sun, death, ...

Literary critics, cultural scholars and aficionados of the Mayans, the only fully literate people of the pre-Columbian Americas, have lined up to call the first fully illustrated survey of two ...

A 13th-century manuscript sits under glass, its bark-paper pages filled with vivid glyphs and cryptic figures, in a quiet reading room in Dresden, Germany. Known as the Dresden Codex, it’s one of the ...

NEW YORK, July 11 (UPI) -- The fall of the Roman and Egyptian civilizations and most other great cultures of the past have been slow, historically documented processes, but the precipitate demise of ...

The world is ending on Friday — according to a bunch of people who’ve misread the Maya calendar. (Take it from me, they’re wrong. I should know: I’m part Maya and I’m pretty sure my ancestors didn’t ...

In her book, anthropology professor Lisa Lucero’s book explores how the Maya survived for thousands of years by building their societies on a foundation of respect for, and integration into, the ...

Explore the world of puppetry through the eyes of 9 year old Juana as she fights to save her society. Written and directed by Chicago artist, Rocio “Chio” Cabrera- Coz, Juana and the Missing Mayan ...