The strum of a guitar and accompanying voice filtered down the stairs where ESPN cameras were filming an interview with Jonathan Irons. It was beautiful, but distracting, and director Rudy Valdez ...

Two trophy skulls, discovered by archaeologists in the jungles of Belize, may help shed light on the little-understood collapse of the once powerful Classic Maya civilization. The defleshed and ...

Two trophy skulls, recently discovered by archaeologists in the jungles of Belize, may help shed light on the little-understood collapse of the once powerful Classic Maya civilization. The defleshed ...

A wooden canoe surrounded by human and animal skeletons near the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá may have been used as part of a ritual. In 2021, divers in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula discovered the ...

A large, charred deposit containing royal human remains and ornaments found inside a Maya temple-pyramid was likely part of a "dramatic and public ritual" during a regime change. Archaeologists ...

Over a thousand years ago, the Maya civilization was dealing with an unpredictable climate. In response to natural obstacles including overpopulation and drought, the Maya developed intricate farming ...

When director Marc Meyers set out to make Human Capital—which follows the story of two families interlinked by an ill-fated business deal and a tragic car accident—he wanted to explore themes of ...