Maya city-states were known for producing unique crafts like pottery, textiles, jade carvings and obsidian tools that were traded regionally. You can’t escape taxes, even in the Ancient Mayan ...

A national park in Belize has deep roots in Mayan healing traditions. Smoke curled around my body as Maria Garcia, a Yucatec Maya healer, walked around me in circles, swinging a pail of incense. I ...

Author and historian Patrick Garner examines the different periods and styles of ancient Greek pottery and delves into the strange effigies of the Olympic god Hermes which were used in ways few ...

Photo from Xavier Sicart Chavarría via INAH Hidden beneath the rainforest of southern Mexico sit the ruins of a massive ancient Maya settlement. Archaeologists knew of the site since the 1980s ...

You can easily walk through on your own and they’re the best free Mayan ruins near Playa del Carmen. The San Gervasio Ruins are the most well-known of the two ancient Mayan sites on Cozumel, a small ...