Yuri Knorozov's seminal 1963 work, "The Writing of the Maya Indians," cracked the code of how to decipher Mayan writing. (TASS) It’s 1952, and Western archaeologists are trekking through lush Central ...

Tom Brady was never the best athlete, but there must be something in those genes. The niece of the greatest quarterback of all time, Maya Brady, was selected No. 1 overall by the Oklahoma City Spark ...

With “The Beatles Anthology” now on Disney+, we dig into “The Compleat Beatles,” another documentary on the band that is difficult to see legally but had an impact on a generation. By Jason Bailey ...

Centuries before Monopoly, there was Patolli, a high-stakes Mesoamerican game of strategy and luck where players wagered crops and wealth as they raced their opponents around a cross-shaped board. The ...

It used to be thought that ancient Mesoamerican monuments were built and used predominantly by powerful leaders and ruling classes. Among the early Maya, however, the site of Aguada Fénix would have ...

In the wake of this week’s GLAAD study finding that nearly half of all LGBTQ+ characters will disappear from TV next season, “Stranger Things” stars Maya Hawke and Amybeth McNulty spoke out on the ...

Maya Hawke reveals mom Uma Thurman's advice about working with Quentin Tarantino. Kristina Bumphrey/PMC/Gilbert Flores/PMC/Kristina Bumphrey/PMC After leading three Quentin Tarantino movies of her own ...

Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for millennia by forest and fields before it was made public in 2020. Five years on, ...

Finding the oldest Maya site ever documented was only the beginning of archaeologist Takeshi Inomata’s discoveries. After locating the Aguada Fénix site buried in the jungle of southern Mexico in 2017 ...

Anxiety has become a beloved Pixar character. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It’s been one of the great honors. Like my little ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

An appellate court has reversed a $261 million verdict awarded to the Kowalski family in the "Take Care of Maya" case. The court found the original trial was flawed by emotionally charged testimony ...