The events, taking place monthly from April through November, feature a three-course meal prepared by Soleil Ramirez and ...

From the carefully constructed streets of Indus Valley to Egypt's lofty pyramids, from the heavens' wisdom of the Maya to the written records of the Sumerians, the earliest civilisations set the stage ...

A Late Classic (A.D. 600–900) Maya vase from the Peten region of Guatemala portrays a king and queen (above, center) preparing to perform a ceremonial dance. Both royal figures wear feather ...

As it turns out, Western ears are not the only ones attuned to prosody. In his annotated translation of the Mayan Quiché myth cycle Popol Vuh, written down in the 1550s, the abovementioned translator ...

The ancient Maya held beans in such high regard that their foundational book, the Popol Vuh, states that the first men were given corn, beans, peppers and squash as their staple food. Similarly ...

Maya Wang is the associate China director at Human Rights Watch. Wang has researched and written extensively on a wide range of issues in China including the use of torture, arbitrary detention ...