Centuries before Monopoly, there was Patolli, a high-stakes Mesoamerican game of strategy and luck where players wagered ...

Acrobats from a Mexican theater company perform the show titled "Mortal Leap into Xibalba," which reinterprets a myth from a ...

It used to be thought that ancient Mesoamerican monuments were built and used predominantly by powerful leaders and ruling classes. Among the early Maya, however, the site of Aguada Fénix would have ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with strong hierarchies (kings, priests, and planners) could organize massive ...

Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for millennia by forest and fields before it was made public in 2020. Five years on, ...

One party planning site suggests games including 'Pin the Tail on the Horseman', 'End of Days charades', and 'Doomsday Drinking Games'. The best bit? There'll be no cleaning up after Armageddon ...

The little-known city of Chochkitam, located in northeast Guatemala’s dense rainforest near the border with Belize and Mexico, was last photographed by archaeologists some 100 years ago. In 2024, ...

Researchers think the largest and oldest monumental Maya site is a map of the universe The site's layout follows the solar movement and “is comparable to, or even greater than, those of later ...

One of the capital’s landmarks appears to make a ‘farting’ sound every time a firework goes off in east London. The 6,000-seat Olympic Velodrome was built for the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic ...