Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

About 30 Mayan languages are still spoken by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. Some are spoken by hundreds of thousands of people; some by fewer than 5,000. The highly ...

The Classic Maya civilization grew to about 40 cities at ... We know this because cacao has been found in Mayan pottery in Guatemala. Mayan chocolate would be mixed with water, honey, chili ...

When most people think of ancient Maya civilization, they imagine godlike kings building ... Along with Brown University bioarchaeologist Andrew Scherer and colleagues from Guatemala and Mexico, ...

GUATEMALAN MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND SPORTS ... we were in the middle of the most exciting part of Maya history.” The story of the discovery of the Kaanul, or Snakes, and their effort to create ...

A civilization dries up By the time of ... Slash-and-burn agriculture is still happening in the jungles of Guatemala, where the Maya once ruled. Despite international efforts to abate clear ...

There is a tendency for Americans to feel drawn to Latin American countries for proximity and staying within the same time zone. If you anticipate frequent trips back to your home country, think ...

rainforests and ancient Mayan sites. The capital, Guatemala City, features the stately National Palace of Culture and the National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Antigua, west of the capital ...