Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

Even after 2,000 years of exposure to the intense heat and humidity of the Yucatán jungles, the temples, statues, and murals painted with the fabled pigment known as "Maya blue" remain as vibrant as ...

The National Museum of Mexican Art is working in collaboration with the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and ...

From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, ...

A Chicago family purchased the artifact, a limestone frieze that was most likely once part of an ancient Mayan building, in a ...

Today, more than 30 Mayan languages exist and are spoken by at least six million people worldwide. Although some, like ...

Recently, scholars studying these pre-Columbian artworks have gained new insights into the life of the ancient Maya kings and their retinues. Now, an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in ...

Escape the heat this summer and immerse yourself in the art of the ancient Americas at the New ... explore the monumentality and naturalism of Mayan art from Campeche, Chiapas, Copán and El ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a ... as the “Storm God,” more common in Teotihuacan than Mayan art. Two bodies were buried underneath the altar – one probably ...

A Chicago family purchased the artifact, a limestone frieze that was most likely once part of an ancient Mayan building, from ...