Ahead of the premiere of a new Netflix documentary, Take Care of Maya, Maya Kowalski tells PEOPLE how a hospitalization for her painful and rare neurological condition led to her mother’s suicide Maya ...

Tikal was the economic and ceremonial hub of the Maya civilisation. But its stone palaces and temples would never have been constructed without mastery over one vital substance. Standing in the ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ancient Maya constructed hundreds of pyramids throughout Mesoamerica, from about 1000 B.C. to ...

The Pyramid of the Magician stands over 100 feet tall and contains five different temples built in succession. Elizabeth Landau As the sun sets over the Yucatan jungle, its fading light falls on the ...

It's not every day that modern researchers uncover an ancient lost city. But for a network of scientists exploring Mexico's central Yucatan Peninsula, that very phenomenon is becoming so common that ...

With Vice President Kamala Harris in the running against former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, the politician's family has been offering their support. Since Kamala Harris secured the ...

Part of our weekly "In Focus" series—stepping back, looking closer. Every civilization has its rise and fall. But no culture has fallen quite like the Maya Empire, seemingly swallowed by the jungle ...

A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence that the Maya civilization was even more sprawling than known. By Alan ...

The burnt ruins of a Maya city in what’s now Guatemala hold clues to its untimely demise at the turn of the 7th century. ByKatherine J. Wu Tuesday, August 6, 2019 NOVA NextNOVA Next A reproduction of ...