On the outskirts of the Mexican resort town of Tulum, overlooking the Caribbean sea from a densely jungled hilltop, are the remains of a Mayan city known as Zama, or “Dawn.” The ruins look similar to ...

José Chávez, a Riverside resident, is an award-winning bilingual poetry author for children. His new book is “Dancing Fruit, Singing Rivers.” (Courtesy of José Chávez) Imagine a land filled with books ...

The Maya civilization is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as its spectacular art, monumental architecture, ...

The year is 1575. Mexico City has been struck by a plague. But behind the walls of a specialized school, painters, artists, and wise men of the Aztec tradition are working to complete a project that ...

BYU professor Rory Scanlon's creativity when designing ancient Bible and Book of Mormon attire is not a product of chance. Scanlon and his team of student researchers in BYU's department of theatre ...

Ancient stone "potbelly" sculptures on display in a park in Guatemala are magnetized on certain spots, suggesting the pre-Columbian civilization that made them had a practical knowledge of magnetism.

Imagine a land filled with books by people who made books, illustrated books and sang their books for the benefit of the people. They didn’t write books as we know them but painted them with vibrant ...