A descendant of Maya warriors who fought government troops ... patted out the stacks of 13-layer corn-and-squash-seed breads that no women had been allowed to touch, cooked them in the pib ...

Images show kings and warriors in body armour with swords and shields and tell us about what they wore in battle. Here we meet three generations of Maya women from the Ixil community, who live in ...

Yuknoom Cheen’s name appears throughout the Maya region. He married off his daughter Water Lily Hand to a Waka prince; she later became a powerful warrior ... a young woman and a child had ...

The parents of a Guatemalan Mayan woman who was shot in the head by a Border Patrol agent, whose death drew international outrage because a resident filmed and posted footage of her body, sued the ...

Within the Bay Area's Hispanic community is a group of indigenous Maya people from Guatemala and Mexico whose first language ...

Mayan Warrior is a collaborative project bringing a fully functional “art” car to the Playa at Burning man. That vehicle is built with the sole function of providing a mobile performance stage ...

Satellites are helping scientists spot more ancient Mayan ruins than ever before, which is no small feat considering how thick the forest is in the indigenous group's ancestral lands ...

The producer and conductor Meir Briskman collaborated on the Mita Gami & Meir Briskman Orchestra Set, which happened in the desert aboard the new Mayan Warrior art car. By Katie Bain A performance ...

After living in Cancun, I've created the perfect 7-day Cancun itinerary. Make sure you see and do all the best things to get ...

This weekend, Rudolph returned as the presidential hopeful for SNL's season premiere cold open. There were no nods to the ...

Maya Oppenheim is Women’s Correspondent - the only such job title at a UK news outlet - at The Independent. She writes news stories, exclusives and features exploring national news, social ...