Women’s work – including quilts – were once relegated to the realm of crafts. But with museums and art galleries now looking ...

The Maya city of Tikal was found to be just a fraction of an immense hidden metropolis Researchers have found more than 60,000 hidden Maya ruins in Guatemala in a major archaeological breakthrough.

The Maya weavers worked mainly with cotton, which had to be washed and picked clean of seeds. This was hard work! Cotton was associated with richer people. The loose fibres were spun into threads ...

Antigua, Guatemala. The city is renowned for ... market has endless rows of handicrafts, in addition to textiles. And ...

The Petén area of Guatemala is very different than Antigua and Lake ... especially among indigenous Maya communities and most textiles tell a story. Each piece is a kaleidoscope of symbols, each ...

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

Archaeologists have found thousands of Maya structures and a lost city they named Valeriana in Mexico by using laser mapping ...

The ancient Maya city was named "Valeriana" after a nearby freshwater lagoon and built before 150 AD, researchers said.

An indigenous Guatemalan, Sosa was part of a vast wave of migrants, primarily Mayan, who fled the country during and after its 36-year civil war. They sought escape from economic crises ...

The storefront of Tikal Mayan Food. Tikal’s interior ... the equivalent of a Mexican tostada. In the Guatemalan style, the tortillas are a bit thicker, and made by hand in the restaurant ...