Tag: Maya

  • Nation & World

    A great civilization brought low by climate change (and, no, it’s not us)

    Human-environmental scientist says there are new clues about how and why the Maya culture collapsed.

    6 minutes
    Professor Billie L. Turner standing in front of a slide showing rainfall.
  • Nation & World

    Protectors of the Maya

    Harvard’s Bill and Barbara Fash have developed a program that trains local people in Copán, Honduras, to preserve and protect the area’s ancient Maya heritage.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Deepening ties to Latin America

    Harvard’s role in an increasingly connected world includes deep ties to Latin America, where faculty and students are engaged in a range of research projects and initiatives, from climate research in Brazil to disaster relief work in Chile to protecting Maya art and architecture in Honduras.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    In on the act

    More than 30 collaborators, including four Harvard undergrads, take the stage in the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) production of “The Lily’s Revenge,” at Oberon through Oct. 28.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Inside Dumbarton Oaks

    More people are enjoying the treasures of Harvard-owned Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., in part because of the opening of new library and museum facilities, and because of fresh efforts to increase connections with Harvard’s Cambridge campus and reach out to political, educational, and cultural leaders in Washington.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Mexico: Ian Graham, explorer

    As an explorer, archaeologist, draftsman and photographer, Graham has devoted his life to making the ancient comprehensible.

    1 minute