Tikal’s great plaza, at the heart of what was one of the most powerful city-states in the Americas, is surrounded by monumental structures: the stepped terraces of the North Acropolis, festooned with ...

When the Spanish conquered the Maya empire in the 16th century, they forced their new subjects to convert to Christianity and speak and write in Spanish. But long before the Maya used the Roman ...

Barbara MacLeod speaks Maya—as in ancient Maya. How do you resurrect the sound of a language spoken long ago? Some dialects still spoken in Central America can offer clues, MacLeod believes. "We can ...

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