Dzan, Mexico – Surrounded by dense jungle and beneath intertwining canopies of towering trees, Luis May Ku, 49, trudges ahead through shoulder-height bushes searching for a rare plant. The oppressive ...

Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke welcomed their daughter, Maya, two years after they met on the set of Gattaca in 1996 Collette Reitz is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Take Care of Maya, a Netflix documentary that premiered back in June 2023, tells the very true story of a young girl named Maya Kowalski. In October 2016, Maya, then age 10, was admitted to Johns ...

It's been dubbed "the greatest construction project in the world", and will usher in a new way for travellers to experience Mexico's ancient Maya sites. So why is it so controversial? I first visited ...

French President Emmanuel Macron last year called for looted African artworks housed in France to be returned to the home countries from which they had been stolen. Now, he might want to add Maya art ...

The pyramid-building Maya reigned over much of Central America. Today, descendants keep Maya history alive—a sign of resilience. This sculpture of the head of a Mayan warrior found in the Temple of ...

Vice President Kamala Harris’ sister, Maya Harris, is a lawyer and public policy advocate Stephanie Kaloi is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She has also ...

The Maya haven’t disappeared. Just as the fall of Rome didn't meant the end of Romans, the decline of great Maya metropolises, such as Guatemala’s Tikal, which reached its apex in the ninth century, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Internet giant Google is adding two native Central American languages -- Maya and Nahuatl -- to its universal search service, a company ...

Chichén Itzá, "the mouth of the well of the Itzás," was likely the most important city in the Yucatán from the 10th to the 12th centuries. Evidence indicates that the site was first settled as early ...