The center needs support from the community. “We need more dry foods such as the rice and the beans, and we could use some money for that,” Carrasco said.

A private collector has returned a Mayan artifact to Guatemala after it was initially slated for auction in 2019. The stone fragment depicts a bird headdress belonging to an ancient ruler of ...

Sitting atop the largest pyramid in the world in northern Guatemala’s ancient Mayan city El Mirador, I tried to imagine how the city below looked nearly 2,500 years ago. Standing nearby, the ...

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and the Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei have toured the archaeological site of Tikal during a trip by Tsai that aims to shore up the self-governing ...

Guatemalan-Maya Center co-founder dies at 53. Chris Persaud. [email protected]. For decades, after fleeing genocide in Guatemala, Policarpia Gaspar Xuncax helped raise hundreds of Palm Beach ...

A 2,000 year old stela recently discovered in Guatemala has revealed examples of the genesis of Mayan writing, according to experts studying the ancient civilization that dominated much of Central ...

Indigenous Defiance: Ixil Maya women in 2014, in the western Guatemalan town of Nebaj, carry the coffin of an exhumed villager, killed during a military massacre there in 1982, to a new burial site.

Archaeologists in Guatemala have discovered the tomb of an ancient Mayan warrior queen packed with jade jewels and other artifacts that shed light on the long-vanished civilization, experts said ...