MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican artistic director Jorge Díaz used to have a unique selection of bedtime stories for his son. Setting aside well-known books like “Pinocchio,” they read tales closer to home.

Acrobats from a Mexican theater company perform “Mortal Leap into Xib’alb’a,” which reinterprets a myth from a sacred Mayan book about creation and the journey to the underworld. The Associated Press ...

Giant fossilized teeth from extinct megalodon sharks may have inspired portrayals of a primordial sea monster in Mesoamerican creation myths, according to a new study of the concepts of sharks in ...