At the site of an ancient Maya ball court, researchers have identified a bundle of ceremonial mind-altering plants—which may have been used as an offering to higher powers during the court’s ...

Do you find yourself dreading the next day, exhausted before it even begins? Struggling to feel present–your mind wandering to various stressors or intrusive thoughts? Feeling overstimulated or ...

DNA analysis of the soil showed traces of four plants: chili peppers, lancewood, morning glory, and jool. To the Maya, these had “religious associations and medicinal properties” and served in ...

Jade Skirt: Us Maya have really healthy diets. As well as the maize, beans and squash we grow to eat, we also produce cotton to make cloth and flowers for decoration. We hunt deer, fish and birds ...