Then, in 964, the Itzás, a Maya-speaking people from the Petén rain forest around Tikal, moved into the city. Archeologists have fully explored only about 20 or 30 of several hundred buildings ...

NBC 5 and the Kimbell Art Museum invite you to experience Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, now through September 3 at the Kimbell Art Museum. This monumental and acclaimed exhibition ...

Metropolitan Musem of Art/Museo de Sitio de Toniná via Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. The Mayans believed their gods to be immortal, and if “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Mayan Art” ...

Whether it was human sacrifice, treasure tossed into sacred sinkholes, or rituals surrounding resource extraction from the land, the ancient Maya had a rich worldview that involved a close reciprocal ...

Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, the new exhibition at the Met, isn’t strictly an art show, though we can approach and enjoy it via gorgeous, fantastic art alone. At its heart ...

We explore what sets these ones apart. The twin dragon gods, Bahamut and Tiamat, are two of the most iconic deities in all of ...

The vivid mystery of that place permeates Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, the Metropolitan Museum’s rare exhibition of carvings and sculptures from Calakmul and other Maya metropolises.

Huracán was once a god of the K'iche,' one of the Maya peoples who today live in the southern highlands of Guatemala. He was one of the main characters of the Popol Vuh , a religious text from ...

Jade Skirt: The gods and spirits are so important to my people, the Maya. The king is our head priest and he can speak directly to the gods. With the help of other high-ranking priests ...

The statue is of the Mayan maize god. He was found in a pyramid-style temple in Copan in modern-day Honduras surrounded by many other maize gods. In Mayan mythology, the maize god was decapitated ...

Some of the best evidence for this comes from the behavior of two of the most powerful beings of the Maya world: The first is a creator god whose name is still spoken by millions of people every ...