The quest to decipher Maya hieroglyphs began with the very Spanish invaders whose hegemonic rule did so much to wipe out the ancient Maya script. Among them was the conquistador Hernando Cortes ...

In recent centuries, pretty much the entire world has transitioned over to the modern numeral system (also known as Arabic or ...

In her first interview on the 2024 campaign trail, Maya tells PEOPLE that she'll always see her sister as the little girl who "never backed down from a challenge" Lizzie Hyman is PEOPLE Magazine's ...

The Maya weavers worked mainly with cotton, which had to be washed and picked clean of seeds. This was hard work! Cotton was associated with richer people. The loose fibres were spun into threads ...

Ancient Maya diet was mostly maize, squash, beans (the ‘Three Sisters,’) and chili peppers. Of these, maize was most popular, and they ground it up and made tortillas to wrap meat and beans in.

Vases found in Guatemala offer rare physical proof of tobacco use among ancient Maya, but with a twist: This time, they didn’t inhale. Among the Maya, smoking tobacco was more common than liquid ...

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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.

Maya Wiley: You know, it's been a challenge. It meant a challenge to understand and what it means to be a Wiley, that sense of both pride but also that sense of responsibility.

Firefighters found Maya, an 8-year-old Pitbull mix, unconscious and lying on top of her disabled owner as a fire ravaged their house in the suburban Sacramento city of Citrus Heights last month ...

But to make it even more confusing, instead of using a numerical digit, the NFL uses Roman numerals to number the Super Bowl, ...