From cuisine and ceremony to legend, spiritual belief and language, what was created more than a thousand years ago still exists today. There are roughly 6 million direct Maya descendants living ...

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 ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Maya America Vol. 3, No. 3, 2021 Trends in language choice and effects of... Annis, S. 1987. God and ...

Today, this area is inhabited by the Ch’orti’ people, whose language (also called Ch’orti’) shares many similarities with the traditional Mayan language. Image caption, In the seventh ...

On Tuesday, legendary writer Maya Angelou died at age 86. One of the most famous African American writers to emerge in the 20th century, Angelou was a poet, playwright, and great orator.

INAH said the city, which it has named Ocomtun – meaning “stone column” in the Yucatec Maya language – would have been an important centre for the peninsula’s central lowland region ...