The Maya would have had to obtain mercury from far locations, transporting it by foot hundreds of kilometres across present-day Central America.
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An ambitious new train would link resorts like Cancun to inland ancient ruins and colonial towns. That means laying rail across 932 miles of dense jungle, pristine beach and indigenous villages.
Grisly war trophies made from the heads of vanquished enemies certainly grab attention. But archaeologists are more interested in what they may tell about a tumultuous time of shifting political power.
Many people think climate change caused Classic Maya civilization to collapse abruptly around 900 A.D. An archaeologist says that view is too simplistic and misses the bigger point.
The Ixil people of Guatemala dream of the places where their dead, massacred during the country’s armed conflict might be located.
Decades after the end of a civil war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, the survivors’ search for justice goes on.
Indigenous people from around the world revere certain traditional foods as sacred. Activists, scholars and chefs are revitalizing these food systems.
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