The film follows 14-year-old Hilberto Lealo from Guatemala, who dreams of visiting the ancient Mayan ruins of Tikal. He learns the traditional art of weaving from his father, Don Jose, in their ...

From colonial charm to luxurious modernity, Guatemala’s tourism sector is undergoing a revival, blending its rich cultural ...

From the carefully constructed streets of Indus Valley to Egypt's lofty pyramids, from the heavens' wisdom of the Maya to the written records of the Sumerians, the earliest civilisations set the stage ...

In the rainforests of Guatemala are the ruins of one of the great sites of Maya civilisation. Tikal was settled during the first millennium ... some of the oldest and finest examples of Buddhist art ...

Tourists visit a Mayan temple in the Tikal archaeological site at the Maya Biosphere in Peten, Guatemala, on July 24, 2024. (Photo by JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP via Getty Images) Small crowds also mean ...

Culling ancient works from the Asia Society’s collection, Rina Banerjee, Howardena Pindell, and Byron Kim look to the past to challenge ideas of identity and authenticity.

The look of most art-house theaters tends toward blandness and conformity. But the Mayan, which opened in 1930, during the golden age of motion-picture palaces, is a reminder that going to the ...

The Mayan has everything you'd want in an art-house cinema: landmark status, a rich local history, a surviving original design, a neon marquee and the smell of nearly a century's worth of buttered ...

What she had unwittingly discovered had been an important part of the Mayan ecosystem – once subservient to neighbouring Tikal (over the border in what is now Guatemala), but later a power in ...