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

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

Even after 2,000 years of exposure to the intense heat and humidity of the Yucatán jungles, the temples, statues, and murals ...

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

“For the Classic Maya, in many ways, clothing defined personhood,” says Alyce de Carteret, a fellow in Art of the Ancient Americas at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “Numerous aspects ...

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 ...

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 ...