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Owners of the historic downtown nightclub, which has appeared in such films as "The Bodyguard" and "Night at the Roxbury," ...
As one of Downtown’s most striking buildings, the Mayan first opened in 1927. It was designed by Mexican sculptor and ...
Sustainability doesn’t always mean using “natural” materials per se; it can also mean using renewable and recyclable ones.
Some believe that the sleepy mountain town of Tepoztlán harbors a great spiritual power — and who are we to disagree?
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered the 1,700-year-old tomb of the earliest known ruler of the ancient Maya city of Caracol. The ...
As we all know, museums are spaces where representative examples of material culture produced by women and men over time are ...
Waves of Influence seeks to renew the inquiry into Pacific coastal contacts and bring fresh attention to connections between regions often seen as isolated from one another. This volume reassesses the ...
The LA-based artist is the subject of a solo show at the Ringling Museum after winning the $30,000 Hermitage Greenfield Prize.
A major breakthrough in Maya archaeology has emerged from Caracol, Belize, where the University of Houston team uncovered the tomb of Te K'ab Chaak—Caracol’s first known ruler. Buried with elaborate ...
Te K’ab Chaak was the first dynastic leader of the Maya region of Caracol. Even after the king died, his dynasty last another ...
Columbian cities, with an estimated population of 35,000 at its peak, Chichén Itzá flourished between the 8th and 12th centuries CE.
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