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 ...

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 ...

Maya Angelou’s legacy goes beyond the body of work she shared with the world during her lifetime. Her legacy as one of the greatest writers of all time also embodies the ability she had to hold on to ...

Tikal’s great plaza, at the heart of what was one of the most powerful city-states in the Americas, is surrounded by monumental structures: the stepped terraces of the North Acropolis, festooned with ...

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, ...

Archaeologist Ivan Šprajc has spent nearly 30 years uncovering long-lost cities buried deep in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. His latest discovery is capturing the world's attention. "You need to be a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...