Today, the Mayan people of Mexico and Central America speak about 70 Maya languages. Most of these people are also fluent in Spanish, though many are not. They developed intricate hieroglyphs.

But deep in the jungles of Belize, under the dry refuge of two rock shelters, the skeletons of people who died as many as 9,600 years ago have been exceptionally well preserved. Their bones offer ...

The Mayan people are still present in the region they dominated and beyond, in Honduras, Belize and Guatemala. Millions still speak Mayan languages.

Left out of much of the action are the Mayas themselves, a people living in villages across the Yucatán Peninsula, southern Mexico and Central America whose ancestors ruled this region until ...

But people speaking Mayan languages still flourished across the region known today as southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and western Honduras. Those peoples accepted Christian conversion, but ...

Genomes from ancient Maya people reveal collapse of population and civilization 1,200 years ago Tiwanaku: A little-known pre-Incan civilization that built temples and cities high in the Andes ...

MEXICO CITY – Seize the day. Only 52 weeks and a day are left before Dec. 21, 2012, when some believe the Maya predicted the end of the world. Unlike enthusiasts of other doomsday theories wh… ...

Only one year to go before December 21, 2012 – the end of the world according to Mayan predictions – but the Mexican region plans a year of celebrations. UK News Website of the Year 2024 ...

Scientists find first proof of potent tobacco use among ancient Mayan people Researchers find proof of tobacco considered godlike by the ancients By CATHLEEN F. CROWLEY , Staff writer Jan 13, 2012 ...

One of the first women from the region to arrive in San Francisco in the early 1960s, ... "Many people -don't say they're Mayan when they get here - they just say they're Mexicano.

Around 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, before the classic period of the Maya, people harvested tiny Pachychilus snails for food. “They would boil them and lop off the end of the shell and eat the ...